Day 1
S79 59' 26.88", W79 54' 59.40"
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The team have arrived at the start point and got a few hours of skiing in on day one. Strong winds and spindrift but the team are safely in the tent.
“Hi everyone, this is Louis and Martin calling in from day one of the Adaptive Antarctica expedition.
An awesome day; we finally got the nod that the weather was clearing up to fly us, just after lunch today from Union Glacier out to our start point, just off the edge of the continent, to a
point known as Hercules Inlet. It’s a short 20 minute flight. We landed in fairly strong winds, when we were unloading. Once we were all sorted, we said our farewells to the air crew,
and sat and watched the plane fly off. And that was it. We’re realised then it’s all down to us. It’s just the two of us working as a team now, over the next few weeks to make our way to
the South Pole.
We set off and did a short day. By the time we got everything sorted it was
quite late in the afternoon, around about half past four, so we just skied three hours, and covered 4.2 nautical miles. It’s quite a steep incline, in from the Ronne Ice Shelf and up onto the continent itself. It’s fairly strong headwind as well. We did a couple of legs each, and then we’ve just managed to pitch the tent. We’re working out our tent routine, now we’re
working together and the most efficient way of doing all the various jobs we need to do.
We’re settled in for the night, we’re been melting snow, to make all our food, doing our communications checks, and hopefully fairly soon we’ll grab some sleep and then we’re
going to prepare for our first full day tomorrow. We’re hoping to do five or six hours and slowly work our way into the routine. We’re both super-excited to have officially started the expedition.
We look forward to speaking to you all again soon. That’s all from Louis and Martin.
Goodnight!”
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