Crevasse Rescue in Action
Team members lie flat and work together to safely pull a secured colleague out of the crevasse.
Videos
Through these small videos, we hope to give you a taste of what it is like to work and live at the Princess Elisabeth Station. We tried to cover a broad range of topics and uploaded parts of our archives to do so. We hope you'll like it.
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Climbing Out of a Crevasse
Demonstrating the rope techniques used to safely ascend and exit a crevasse.
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Inside an Antarctic Crevasse
A striking look at the scale and beauty of a crevasse from the inside.
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Hidden Danger Beneath the Snow
Demonstrating how a seemingly solid snow surface can collapse and reveal a crevasse below.
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Opening of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station
With all the snow from last winter cleared, the BELARE 2025–26 season is off to a strong start!
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Unloading the plane
The first five crewmembers arrived and successfully unloaded all their supplies!
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On the way to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station!
Enjoying the Antarctic landscape on the flight to the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station!
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Utsteinen Nunatak Windscoop Melting
During the height of summer at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, temperatures can sometimes climb above freezing, which is warm enough to melt ice in the nearby Utsteinen Nunatak windscoop!
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A pod of very rarely seen Arnoux’s beaked whales spotted off the coast of Antarctica
This week two members of our team traveled to the coast when they just so happened to encounter a pod of Arnoux's beaked whales swimming and feeding amongst the…
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Timelapse of Snow Being Cleared from the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
This videos is a timelapse of the opening days of the 2024-25 season. We can see how snow is being cleared from around the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica!