When the Royal Meteorological Society invited me to write a guest blog about the Antarctic Quest 21 expedition for their MetMatters page, I analysed the daily SitReps provided daily from the Antarctic Peninsula by expedition leader Paul Hart to provide an insight how the weather and ice conditions determined the experience and progress of the expedition team.
Read MoreThe team safely back in Argentina and preparing to go their separate ways to rejoin families and pick up their lives back home, Paul find time for a concluding message.
Read MoreSimon Newton’s short film of the start of the expedition is now available. See it here!
As Antarctic Quest 21 draws to a close, the science team find time to send some video footage of what they have been doing.
Read MoreThe Antarctic Quest 21 expedition I’m supporting as scientific advisor has been beset by most arduous weather conditions – storms alternating with snow blizzards and zero visibility…
Nevertheless, the team are in good spirit and ingenious in repairing the damage to their tents and kit – rising to each challenge with the resilience and team spirit any team anywhere aspires to.
If you have an hour to spare, watch the zoom record of their Shackleton commemoration, tales from the ice and thanks to sponsors and patrons…
Oh no (I hear you say) please, not another new story of contamination and its dreadful consequences!
And yet…
Read MoreIt snows on the Antarctic Peninsula. (Still :))
Read MoreAs eight explorers turn their backs to the departing ship, they know that for the next six weeks, the team are totally self-reliant.
Read MoreIf you have been travelling abroad at all in the past 12 months, you may be able to imagine the ‘fun’ of getting 8 people from UK, Sweden and the USA to Buenos Aires and from there to Ushuaia – especially in the early weeks of rapidly changing rules in the wake of the emerging Omicron variant of Covid-19.
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