December 3, 2007
Leave Puntas Arenas Chile for Patriot Hills Base Camp, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica
December 5 +- 1 day, Leave Patriot Hills for 1.5 hour flight in Twin Otter to Edge of the Ronne ice Shelf…team will be dropped off and bye bye…
Initially the team will follow the edge of the giant Foundation Ice Stream, a large 'glacier' fed by the colossal Antarctic ice sheet. (An ice stream is a flow of ice within an ice cap whereas a glacier is a flow of ice within a mountain system). Of course crevasses are natural features of any flowing ice and will keep the team on their toes.
Climbing between the spectacular Thiel and Pensacola Mountains, the team will gain access to the austere Antarctic plateau, over 2000m above sea level. Here the air is cold and brittle and the surface like a great white ocean…
See our progress…
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