Live from Antarctica: Friday 5th December
Good news from the coast: Alain and the reconnaissance team are at Crown Bay now and have discovered the perfect unloading site for the ship.
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Good news from the coast: Alain and the reconnaissance team are at Crown Bay now and have discovered the perfect unloading site for the ship.
No news feed yesterday: it took us half of the day to clean up the base camp's PC. Indeed, forget about Antarctica being all pristine and germ-free: there were about 4…
Today, we received fresh news from Alain and the scientists. They are having some good weather over there: blue sky and moderate winds (which is more than we can say!).…
Some things seem completely hermetic to change. The fact, for example, that the weather is always nice during the week, whereas the week-ends are drizzly, grey and cold. Well, replace…
This is starting to feel like an Agatha Christie story. The six Japanese scientists left this morning as planned. This leaves 11 people at the base camp. We received news from…
The base camp looks a lot emptier: nine of the 24 people have left this morning for the coast (the BELISSIMA team to its study point and Alain in reconnaissance of…
After having had a couple of days of true Antarctic summer weather, the wind has now picked up. For the newcomers, this is almost surprising. They have been enjoying the…
It is now a little over a week since we've landed in Utsteinen.The good weather we had at the beginning of last year's season has now returned.Today was…
November 14 - Day 3 - We all woke up later than usual today. It must have been the fatigue after a full day's work, but perhaps the weather, too, which wasn't…
We have had a calm night and now beautiful weather awaits us for our second day on site. This encourages us to start working quite early. Julien continues to clear…