Antarctic half marathon, what really happened that day

This is what really happened on the Ice road event on the Brunt ice shelf Antarctica.

Antarctic Half Marathon

Here this years Half marathon from Halley where competitors had to run from Halley V to the new Halley VI station.  Part 02 to follow.

Chef Chris’s hair through the winter

Chris made this wee film two days ago on iMovie.  Great idea.  Have a watch, Chris is the past wintering chef at Halley V and he is cooking my meals just now.

Footage on BBC

Some of my footage was used on BBC Breakfast this morning – you can see it online here and on BBC ten O’clock news last night:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16571814

I was at Union glacier trying to get to Halley for 17 days so I did a bit of filming of the Lake Ellsworth guys to pass the time.  Picture below of me filming the Aleutian landing in very cold conditions.  Ant Dubber (Halley winter chef) took the picture.

Solar Eclipse, Antarctica

Solar Eclipse in Antarctica, filmed at Halley Station. My first ever solar eclipse, was great to see. Several of us spent hours the night before fanny-ing with filters from goggles held in front to welding glass. Which gave us a green look. Two red filters were added to bring it back to a real colour.

After all that we had cloud cover and a natural filter so we didn’t need anything, brilliant. 4:30am start was worth it.

Enjoy

The Journey to Halley Part 2

Here our stay at Union Glacier continues as the bad weather stays with us or Halley.  Finally we get away and off to work though.

Enjoy

The journey to Halley

I return to Halley research station on the Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica.  This will be the final year for me filming the Halley VI build.  Hopefully they get it finished.

We head to Halley via a new route for us through Punta Arenas, Chile to Union glacier in the Ellesworth mountains. A commercial camp where Di Gilbert and Heather Morning used to work and where Riet (Chef), Rob Smith(Camp Manager/guide) and Celine Met work who you might have seen in a few other films of mine.

The film shows us arriving and the start of our entrapment due to weather.

Enjoy