Katie Joy, McMurdo Station, 26th January 2013     In the last few days the ANSMET systematic team’s cargo was returned from Ottway Massif. The team have been cleaning up and inventorying gear, and packing up equipment in preparation for… Read more »

      Katie Joy, Recon team, 23rd January 2013 The ANSMETrecon team left South Pole on the 21st Jan (see photo of the LC-130 plane that transported us), are now back in McMurdo. We are currently waiting for our cargo to… Read more »

Tomoko Arai, Recon Team, 20th January, 2013, the South Pole Station Last night we enjoyed sleeping in an actual bed, not in a sleeping bag, in the air-conditioned room. After having Sunday brunch, we packed cargo outside the building of… Read more »

Andrew Beck, G-058, Sunday January 21st, Otway Massif, Antarctica Four of the G-058 team members were picked up by LC-130 last Friday and are currently in McMurdo Station. The LC-130′s are big, but they aren’t big enough to get the… Read more »

Tomoko Arai, Recon Team, 18th January, 2013, Szabo Bluff The end of the Antarctic summer season is approaching, but the weather today was still not unfortunately good enough for us to get back to the McMurdo. We need to fly… Read more »

Katie Joy, Recon Team, 17th January 2013, Szabo Bluff ‘Tent day 11, in the Big-ANSMET house…’. If someone could please vote us out of the field that would be great – just dial ‘SEND-LC130′ and press 1 for Joe, 2… Read more »

Marianne Mader, Systematic Team, Jan. 16, 2012 Otway Camp, Beardmore Region, Antarctica We’re now at the Otway campsite, our final Antarctic home in the field and location of the ‘landing strip’ (i.e., flat snow surface) for the C-130 Hercules plane…. Read more »

Tomoko Arai, Recon Team, 16th January, 2013, Szabo Bluff Hi! Ten days have passed since we were tent-bound on Jan 7th. The weather has never been good except afternoon in Jan 12th. Strong wind, low surface definition, and snow mounds… Read more »

Katie Joy, Recon Team, 14th January 2013, Szabo Bluff Guess what – we have moved and are currently enjoying a nice glass of red wine back in McMurdo. We are sitting in comfy chairs with cushions, and have had showers… Read more »

Tomoko Arai, 12th January, 2013, Szabo Bluff Hello, everyone! I hope everything is going well. Inconceivably, we have been tent-bound for six days! We originally planned to move to a different campsite prior to heading back to the Klein glacier,… Read more »