Amazing News! Yesterday, after two weeks of storms, snow and wind preventing progress, the team finally managed to safely ascend “the ramp”, summit Harris Peak, and even haul some of the equipment and supplies to the new high point!
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Expedition Updates
Our Online Carbon Footprint
The awareness of the carbon footprint of IT and online activity is increasing as a result of media reports, for example thought-provoking articles by the Royal Society, BBC Future and […]
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ITV Interview – The Remotest Zoom
It’s Christmas Eve and the team are struggling with seriously adverse weather conditions. But that didn’t stop them from recording an interview with ITV West Country News, marking presenter Kylie […]
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Metals in the Snow
Oh no (I hear you say) please, not another new story of contamination and its dreadful consequences! And yet… metals in the snow of the Antarctic Peninsula may be good […]
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Snowfall on the Antarctic Peninsula
It snows on the Antarctic Peninsula. (Still :)) Snowfall is monitored at and near some of the research stations located on the South Shetland Islands and the western Antarctic Peninsula. […]
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Alone with the Elements
As eight explorers turn their backs to the departing ship, they know that for the next six weeks, the team are totally self-reliant. Now, they are alone with the elements: […]
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Antarctic Quest 21 has Started!
The team are south of the south of the South Shetland Islands, on their way to Portal Point, where they and their equipment will be dropped off. And the scientific mission has started already: polysulphone ultraviolet dosimetry badges have been deployed on the upper deck of SeaVenture, just as they had been in 2012 during the Spirit of Scott expedition.
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