The Traverse Team doing Recon at the coast
After helping the various teams involved in the BELISSIMA project set up their base camps at the coast, Alain Hubert, Sanne Bosteels, and René Robert set out on a recon mission of the coast. Looking forward to December 22nd, the team has to find the ideal place to offload containers from the icebreaker Mary Arctica safely.
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The reconnaissance team reaches the ice shelf via a landing line
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The team does its recon work near the landing line
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Sanne Bosteels, the expedition's field guide
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Alain Hubert and Sanne Bosteels mark an access point to the ice shelf
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Finding a possible way to get to Crown Bay
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Sanne Bosteels and Alain Hubert discussing
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Crossing the ice shelf on a ski-doo
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Alain Hubert at the edge of a crevasse
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View of the ice shelf from a rift
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You need to take a fragile ramp to reach the ice shelf
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View of the ocean from the ice shelf
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Emperor penguins at Crown Bay
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Marking the route to the coast where the offloading will take place
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A blue ice cave
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Alain Hubert and Sanne Bosteels at the entrance of the cave
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The job of the field guide is also to find a way onto the ice shelf from the sea ice
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Sometimes the team has to negotiate some difficult passages to get onto to the sea ice
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