New Route via Reedy Glacier to South Pole

Jan 08

#40:
Cool stuff

Publiziert am 06:14
Dispatch created from email
Necks craning we advanced south with the knowledge that at some point today we'd see evidence of the station. It came, firstly by way of flags marking the ice road from McMurdo to Pole, and later, the station, but not as we expected. Just after lunch, 32km shy of the pole, we saw a rectangular shape that matches what I know to be the main building of the base. But 32km is beyond the Earth's curvature, even for a five storey building. What we saw on this still and sunny day was a mirage, a temporary refraction of the station on a temperature inversion layer of cold air. Such a phenomenon is seen regularly in cold polar environments in fact South Pole winter personnel have reported seeing the sun a day or two before it actually emerges above the horizon.

We also saw a cloud shaped like a 6 above Pole that resembled an AOK gesture with a hand. Some would construe it as a sign, something of spiritual significance. But if one place existed that has no connection with the intangible, it's Antarctica. There's no spirit here, no dogma, no deity, no openings to inner Earth. Just pure nature and science at work, elements of it so unreal that some would say it has a sanctimonious presence about it. But nothing could be further from the truth. In my 25 years of polar exploration this understanding has only but compounded.

We have converged with the ice road and are camped next to it (with no sight of the station despite being 10km closer than when we saw the mirage). Tomorrow we continue on virgin snow to a designated waypoint where we camp a final night before following a prescribed route through the station environs to the South Pole.

Eric

Pic of frosty Rob and our camp next to the road with one of the flag markers.

  • Name: Camp 32
  • Höhe: 2867 m
  • Breitengrad: 89° 4828South
  • Längengrad: 131° 3724West

Comments


  • Report as abuse...
    2024-04-26 13:18:45 Pakistan says: Wow, cool post. I’d like to write like this too – taking time and real hard work to make a great article… but I put things off too much and never seem to get started. Thanks though. hair transplant cost turkey
  • Report as abuse...
    2024-04-26 11:28:06 Pakistan says: Wow, What a Excellent post. I really found this to much informatics. It is what i was searching for.I would like to suggest you that please keep sharing such type of info.Thanks rafigaming
  • Report as abuse...
    2024-04-26 09:48:32 seo says: Excellent .. Amazing .. I’ll bookmark your blog and take the feeds also…I’m happy to find so many useful info here in the post, we need work out more techniques in this regard, thanks for sharing. https://www.sellevitra.com/goods/2
  • Report as abuse...
    2024-04-25 15:53:10 Pakistan says: You know your projects stand out of the herd. There is something special about them. It seems to me all of them are really brilliant! sell my house for cash
  • Report as abuse...
    2024-04-25 12:36:32 Pakistan says: Nice blog and absolutely outstanding. You can do something much better but i still say this perfect.Keep trying for the best. real estate investment companies
  • Report as abuse...
    2024-04-25 10:40:56 seo says: Do you want to start trading Bitcoin but don't know how to go about it? You're in luck today because we've put together a brilliant tool that makes cryptocurrency trading easy.  trade 11.0 serax erfahrungen
  • Report as abuse...
    2024-04-20 08:45:24 Pakistan says: Wow, What a Excellent post. I really found this to much informatics. It is what i was searching for.I would like to suggest you that please keep sharing such type of info.Thanks link alternatif toto88
  • Report as abuse...
    2024-04-20 08:21:10 seo says: Thanks For sharing this Superb article.I use this Article to show my assignment in college.it is useful For me Great Work. 閃酒
  • Report as abuse...
    2024-04-19 15:10:52 seo says: It was very useful for me. I'm happy I found this blog. Thank you for sharing with us,I too always learn something new from your post. The Myst
  • Report as abuse...
    2024-04-19 06:06:53 seo says: That is the excellent mindset, nonetheless is just not help to make every sence whatsoever preaching about that mather. Virtually any method many thanks in addition to i had endeavor to promote your own article in to delicius nevertheless it is apparently a dilemma using your information sites can you please recheck the idea. thanks once more. https://www.m0ney-ok.com/blog/3
  • Report as abuse...
    2024-04-18 06:36:24 seo says: This article was written by a real thinking writer without a doubt. I agree many of the with the solid points made by the writer. I’ll be back day in and day for further new updates. Smoke Trap Replacement Filter
  • More...



Add Comment


Notify this dispatch to subscribers?

Yes
No
Cancel