It's not all work, work, work on the Ice - π€£. Bartending the Halloween Party.
I'm due for my third deployment to Antarctica tomorrow and this time I'm working down there for a year. I'm a little sad that I won't have access to the SG community, but the prospect of experiencing a full year on Ice is exciting. An Antarctic winter is apparently something to behold. It will be strange to live for four months in darkness, but life...
Read More
In January 2020 I fulfilled a childhood dream when I was chosen to go to work at the South Pole Station for two weeks. When I was 10-years-old, I read a book about Roald Amundsen, who lead the first successful expedition team to reach the bottom of the earth in 1911. I still remember lying in bed thinking, 'I wonder what it's like at the South Pole.' The 3-hour journey for us via an Air Force LC-130 flew over the 3500km Transantarctic Mountains (TAM). It's the most spectacular landscape I've seen since driving the Alps & Dolomites through France, Italy and Switzerland. This is a handful of what I was able to capture through my camera lens. The final photo in this album is our arrival at the South Pole - perched at 2835m (9300ft), it is flat white for as far as the eye can see in every direction. Ice for days! Enjoy!
I'm about to redeploy to Antarctica for a 6-month stint; this site is blocked down there, so I can't reply to emails or messages...but I will when I get back to the 'real world' next March. Keep up the great work SG family...I'll miss you! xo
Eric Gale; George Thorogood & the Destroyers; Buddy Guy!!!
Trash Animals - Life is Beautiful 2018 Exhibit