Day 52
S79 45' 39.60", W82 51' 24.84"
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“Hi good evening everyone, it’s Lou reporting in on day 52 of the expedition.
We were hoping to leave Union Glacier today, to move across to Vinson base camp. We were on standby all day. They were monitoring the weather in great detail and hoping for a gap to get us across on the flight. But sadly it didn’t materialise. It was very much a day of on the bus, off the bus, to the point where we actually packed all of our bags, and got loaded onto the aircraft. There’s some fog and cloud in the area of the landing strip at Vinson base camp that was just persistent throughout the day, and we never got a sufficient enough gap to get us in. So sadly, we’re still here waiting at Union Glacier. On the plus side, this evening, they had movie night and they showed Touching The Void, and for those who have seen it, I’m sure will appreciate, a pretty epic story with Joe Simpson, when he fell into a crevasse during a mountaineering expedition, and was able to crawl out with a broken leg. Pretty inspiring stuff.
Unfortunately another day and night here in UG, but again hoping that there’ll be a gap in the weather tomorrow and we can get across to base camp at Mount Vinson and start the second phase of the expedition to summit Antarctica’s highest peak.
Hopefully we’ll be able to update you with some better news tomorrow.
That’s all for this evening.
Onwards”
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