The Journey to Halley, Antarctica

This is the first part of our Journey south to Halley research Station, Antarctica. It takes a wee while longer than we expect. Antarctica is a pretty expensive place to go so it is great to be working in Antarctica and get to go to these places. Here we take off from Punta Arenas in Chile and fly to Union Glacier in the Patriot hills near Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica. Wee end up helping set up camp and camping there ourselves for a long time before we finally get our DC3 (Basler) flight to Halley when the weather gets better:) Several people here at this camp are here to walk to the South pole or get twin otter flights to another starting point then walk to the pole. Great set up here at Union glacier and landing on blue ice in a Russian Ilyushin IL-76 TD Transport aircraft is pretty cool. Some of our other colleagues took the Dash-7 aircraft in via a different route to the Brunt ice shelf.