Glaciers, Mountains, And Evil Engineers | East Antarctica

Monday and Tuesday, 12-13 February 2024
Day 82-83 of 110ish

I see Antarctica!

But What To My Wondering Eyes Should Appear

Land Ho!!!

In the distance I see glaciers and mountain peaks.

Being white and looking a lot like a cloud, you question strongly whether you are seeing land or just a cloud bank. But it’s definitely ice!

Have I mentioned that the clouds appear lower here? And Tom googled it. Apparently the stratosphere is around 6km thinner here than the equator. Funky! And I digress.

Now I can guarantee I’m not seeing a cloud. This is Antarctica and those are definitely mountains. It’s almost surreal! 

Needless to say, the camera came out en force.

The Evil Engineer Strikes Again

Just another day…though apparently I may have broken the water chiller machine thing by turning it on and off.

Tom cries ‘Bollocks!’ and I tend to agree. Seems engineering isn’t too happy with me these days.

There was a nice cuddly note on the machine saying something to the effect of “Do not turn on and off. You’re fucking the machine. Thanks Engineering”  😛

Hindsight being what it is – I found out that Dave was turning it off in the night when Tom and I were sleeping because it would make a horrible noise. So there you go. It wasn’t me, but have I mentioned morale is down and tensions are high. Yeah…it’s starting to get bad :/