Hollinger in Antarctica

I’m writing this update listening to the wind whistling past the tent. As a look out of the small window I can’t see another tent which is little more than 100 metres away. The wind is swirling at the door and every so often we get up and shovel snow to allow us in and out. After 30 days out on the ice, we are back in Patriot Hills and have had our first real food that is not dehydrated (it’s only a one off at the moment to welcome us back)! We were due to leave Antarctica yesterday but as I have come to learn over the past 5 weeks, nothing here is certain and as I mentioned in yesterdays blog the plane can’t land in bad weather. The current prediction is for better weather on Thursday so we have been (and will be) looking for ways to entertain ourselves. I was hoping to do more science but the weather has prevented that. Instead, last night we earned our dinner by giving a presentation about our expedition to other clients at Patriot Hills. It was really well received (both the presentation and the real food!). Today we have occupied ourselves with the game Balderdash, a lecture about Scuba Diving in Antarctica and Die Hard 4 on a rather small laptop screen! Now it is a question of waiting and keep our fingers crossed we will be home for Xmas! Many thanks to Susan, Tina, Beth, Emma, Sam and the CASTMAS Team for your messages. I look forward to having a look at your website when it is ready and I hope to be able to answer your many questions tomorrow. Happy birthday today to Naima 13CH, Levi 10DN and Toni-Jo 7ZN.

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