Snowcat 15 is designed to fit into a container. Stefan is the driver , Pär directs. Photo: Carl Lundberg Karin and Ola fetch water with Snowcat 15. Ice in the hose causes problems. Photo: Carl Lundberg Blue eyes, blue jacket, blue sky, blue...
Ola, Stefan and Calle on their way to Neumayer to pick up more the second batch of cargo. Photo: Carl Lundberg Happy New Year! Ola, Stefan and Calle drove to Neumayer yesterday to get the second batch of cargo. We packed and celebrated New Years...
At Neumayer we’ve got our self out of bed at 7 for breakfast and then we’ve got help from two machine operators. Unfortunately I do not know the name of the first operator, but anyhow he is almost excessively tanned. And the second...
Stefan is shoveling what seems to be quicksand. Photo: Carl Lundberg Ola pumps tires. We have compressors built into the cars. Photo: Carl Lundberg The goods arrive, Ola and Karin carrying boxes. Photo: Carl Lundberg Karin in the emergency...
The second round with the Finns fuel sleigh on its way from Neumayer. Here we had a few minutes of nice weather. Photo: Carl Lundberg Ola, Stefan and Calle in a snowstorm on the way from Neumayer to Wasa. Photo: Carl Lundberg Stefan and Ola fill...
The waste container is pulled down the hill. Vehicle #15 draws, #12 slows down. Photo: Carl Lundberg Stefan welds a hitch. Photo: Carl Lundberg Calle occupied the living room with the maps in two days. Photo Carl Lundberg We test if it’s...
A thermos with coffee and a roll of duct tape. Ola, Pär and a 15 year old tracked vehicle is ready for a 18-hour journey to the way-point Abzweig Wasa. Photo: Carl Lundberg Calle and Karin having an Ernst-moment, all shall be accommodated around...
Cape Town’s most known landmark, the table mountain. Tablecloth is a weather phenomenon seen during summertime, it consist of thin mist flows down from the mountain. Photo: Henrik Törnberg Our Airbus has landed at the research station Troll....
The Basler DC-3 Lidia landing at Troll. Photo: Henrik Törnberg The Norwegian research station troll. Photo: Henrik Törnberg Troll gives us a perfect start with great weather – sunshine, good visibility, no wind and the thermometer shows -7...
The rear wheel digs itself deep into the loose snow during the landing at Wasa. Photo: Henrik Törnberg The Canadian crew at Lidia. Photo: Henrik Törnberg Breakfast at Seven and then meeting with the pilot and a talk with our colleague at Wasa. We...
Finally are all participants gathered on Wasa. Eleven people is now living on Wasa. The connecting group is consisting of four researchers, Neil Glasser, Ola Fredin, Jennifer Newall and Nathaniel Lifton, the physician Henry Hedelin and the...
Karin plays a key role in the expedition. She is our own Antarctic master chef. Photo: Henrik Törnberg Karin really plays a key role in the expedition – she makes sure we eat great food three times a day. It requires a lot of knowledge and...
Calle is our mountain guide, safety manager and handyman in this cold climate. Photo: Henrik Törnberg Calle ice the expedition unchallenged champion of Tetris. He’s the only one who has figured out how to get all the luggage and equipment on...
The MAGIC-DML team have been out on their first major trip from Wasa. We have been to a small nunatak called Fossilryggen about 50km across the ice from Wasa. The trip was essentially to test out the vehicles, the vehicle storage and packing...
Testing the ultrasonic unit. Foto: Karin Winarve Briefing with ruts and satellite data. Photo: Karin Winarve What’s draining the battery? Photo: Karin Winarve Lashing of cargo before departure. Foto: Karin Winarve Field camp on the ice....
Flag fishing. Photo: Karin Winarve Ostrich slices. Photo: Karin Winarve Replacing the garbage bins at Wasa recycling center. Photo: Karin Winarve Aluminum pipes are probably good to something. Photo: Karin Winarve The Crocodile back. Photo: Karin...
Garbage bins are loaded onto a sled waiting for transport away from Antarctica. Photo: Karin Winarve The Ex atmospheric radar station is the new warming hut for our gas. Photo: Karin Winarve Cooling food that will be eaten during our field tours....
Gas hut in place. Photo: Karin Winarve The days have continued in the same spirit at the station. In the kitchen we have produced lunchboxes for future expeditions. In the yard we have parked the MARA-hut on its new location behind the generator...
Adding the route into the GPS. Photo: Karin Winarve After sometime Consideration, we came to the decision to make a trip to our second research station Svea. The aim was to deploy a depot with two scooters, fuel and a car trailer for the next...
Dinner at Svea before night duty. Photo: Karin Winarve Before the others had time to wake up all rolled all of the house elfs (Pär, Stefan and Karin) down the hill in the blue cars and we set out on this trip to Svea. This was the most practical...
