Blogposts tagged 'Antarctica'

“For God’s sake, look after our people”

Posted by jossg - 18 January 2012 at 10:47am - 0 Comments
Scott, writing his journal in the Cape Evans hut, winter 1911
All rights reserved. Credit: Herbert Ponting / Library of Congress
Scott, writing his journal in the Cape Evans hut, winter 1911

Staring out at the bright, open, broken plains of Arctic sea ice back in September, more than once I was struck by the thought of the early explorers who first trekked across similar icescapes at both frozen ends of the planet. My first time stepping down onto the floating Arctic ice was exciting enough; hard to comprehend what it was like for those who were pushing the boundaries of where humans had previously explored.

Amundsen, Antarctica and the power of impossible ambitions

Posted by Frida Bengtsson - 19 December 2011 at 12:41pm - 1 Comment
Taking an observation at the pole
All rights reserved. Credit: Mr. Steve Nicklas, NOS, NGS via the NOAA Photo Library
Taking an observation at the pole

As I write, this I'm looking out of my window of the Fefor hotel in Norway at a wintery landscape of mountains, forest and an ice-covered lake - the same place where Amundsen, Nansen and Scott planned their historic expeditions to the poles. That I'm here with a team to plan our future polar work is an inspiring and humbling parallel.

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