Day 39
S79 45' 39.60", W82 51' 24.84"
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Merry Christmas from the Adaptive Antarctica team!
“Good evening everybody, it’s Martin on day 39 of the expedition.
Merry Christmas! First I wanted to wish everyone a merry Christmas and all the very best. We’re in Union Glacier still and we’ve had a fantastic Christmas dinner here. The chef’s done an amazing job, and the quality of food given where we are is unbelievable. A great day here.
The Achilles is holding up ok after the pulk haul yesterday, which is great news. But the weather hasn’t been great unfortunately, so we’re just waiting now for a weather window to enable us to get a flight out of here towards the last degree, before we can carry on towards the South Pole. It might be in around 48 hours’ time. It could be a bit longer. So like is so often the case on expeditions, we’re in the laps of the weather gods. We’re just waiting for that window of opportunity now.
I hope everybody’s having a fantastic Christmas, for once I’m able to say that we’ve had a white Christmas, which is been very different, and fantastic. But also missing family and friends. So tonight I just have to say the biggest of all thank yous, to my family. To my dad, and my brothers and my sister for all their support over the years. Unfortunately my mum has passed away, and she’s sorely missed. But also to my wife – who not only puts up with me, but has also supported me in some of these crazy endeavours. I think if you ever want to do anything that takes you away from home in your professional life, or for your ambitions, you need the support of family. It makes a lot of difference, so I’m very fortunate to have that. So I just wanted to say thank you very much to them. Missing you all a lot and hoping everybody has a fantastic day today.
Hopefully tomorrow we’ll be able to give you an update on some timelines for flights out.
All the best. Merry Christmas. ”
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