Cacilie Skog at base camp, Patriot Hills. Live image sent over Contact 4.0 courtesy of Ryan Waters/ humanedgetech.com/expedition/an2009 (click to enlarge)
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Antarctic wrap-up: “We are here!” – The Big Bird has landed on The Ice
Posted: Nov 13, 2009 01:17 am EST
(ThePoles.com) The Ilyushin has landed. The skiers have set foot on Antarctica. They have arrived from Chile at ALE’s base camp, Patriot Hills, in beautiful weather reported Cecilie Skog and Ryan Waters over Contact.
”Yoo hoo we are here!”
Ryan and Cecilie reported about 12 November, “The 6 am flight was cancelled, but then the call came, "be ready to fly at 10:30 am".”
“And we were ready!”
“A nice flight down and a smooth landing on the ice runway, we are here in beautiful Patriot Hills with mountains all around.”
They added, “Now we wait to take the twin otter aircraft to our start on Berkner. We hope for good weather. Good night from the daylight at 12:30 am.”
Links to ski teams:
Unassisted, Unsupported
Cecilie Skog (Norway) and Ryan Waters (USA) Berkner Island Start
Meagan McGrath (Canada) Hercules Inlet Start
Assisted, Unsupported
ANI Hercules Inlet team Eric Larsen (guide, Canada), Dongsheng Liu (Canada) and Bill Hanlon (Ireland/Canada)
Julio Fiadi (Brazil) Hercules Inlet, no updates
Kaspersky Commonwealth team Felicity Aston (United Kingdom, leader), Dk Najibah Eradah binti P. A. M. Al-Sufri Pg M-L Kahar or ‘Era’ (Brunei Darussalam), Stephanie Solomonides (Cyprus), Helen Turton (UK), Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu (India), Kim-Marie Spence (Jamaica), Kylie Wakelin (New Zealand) and Sophia Pang (Singapore) – Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf
ANI Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf team Hannah McKeand (guide, UK) and Arnold Witzig (Swiss/Canada)
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