The 50 knot gust knocked me sideways as it ripped at my overly-full rucksack. The summit was just 50m away and despite my right skin having lost all its glue we were going to make it to what we hope to claim as a first ascent…. Three days earlier The snow was settling lightly onto …
This place is not real. The glaciers loom menacing yet beguiling beautiful. The maudlin cloud cloaks majestic ice-covered mountains with crevassed ice falls tumbling down from their upper slopes. Icy white sentinels float all around, blue and white. Inanimate, but ready without warning to flip over sending a tidal wave to swamp any unwitting visitor …
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We spent 2 nights and 3 days there,one at Whaler’s Bay and one at Telefon Bay. What a fascinating place. The island is horseshoe shaped, with a narrow entrance 500 m, wide to the East guarded by rocks on the right hand side, and known as Neptune’s Bellows. It was one of the first parts …
‘The most inefficient way on the planet to go skiing’ so uttered what vaguely resembled Neil as we dropped off the thousandth green mountainous wave still 150 miles out from the South Shetlands. Three days earlier we had left Ushuaia eager and excited having spent four hours shuttling back and forth negotiating labyrinthine Argentine clearance …
After being tossed around on the Drake Passage for 4 days, it was such a relief to see land and moor up in Half Moon Bay, and enjoy peace and quiet. Imagine our dismay when a cruise ship drew up nearby the following morning! However, Darryl knew some of the folk on board, and they …
Hi, It’s been a while. Mainly because we’ve all been having way too much fun exploring Antarctica to sit down and write blogs about it, but now, on our final day before reentering the drake passage bound for ushuaia we figured it’s time for an update. Here i hope to include a quick rundown of …
In the early afternoon on the 6th of February, with blue skies and sun, the Spirit of Sydney made a smooth departure from Ushuaia. We ran through several safety procedures as we sailed out of the port and were soon spotting penguins swimming alongside the boat. Once we had a watch schedule drawn up it …
We are back from South Georgia after spending some a few weeks in Stanley in the Falklands unwinding and catching up with some friends. Now we are Back in Ushuaia getting ready for our next trip south on Feb the 8th Cheers Darrel
After several days of sailing we finally arrived at Paradise Harbor where the Argentinean base Brown is located. Even though the base was closed I saw a tiny construction over a snout of 230 feet at Sanaviron peninsula. This is one of the most beautiful places I ever saw in Antarctica. There are plenty of …