Any requests?

17th December
Funny how good news nearly always seems to come with bad news.

The good news is that there is a weather window, from now until tomorrow evening, during which a plane could land and pick us up. The bad news is that the runway needs to be cleared first and that is no easy job.

Breathe North!
The runway is about 3km long and 70m wide, it’s covered by about 30cm of snow and the snow blower can only be used if the wind is from the right direction (which it was until 5am this morning, but now it's not and clearing has stopped). The further bad news is that if we don’t leave tomorrow the weather is unlikely to let us go for another week … Christmas Day! So, if you’re reading this please could you help us get home for Christmas by breathing facing North (as it’s a wind from the North that is stopping the runway from being cleared).

Film requests
So for now it’s all about helping out around camp, watching lectures, writing lesson plans and trying to get any last bits of film that will help us when teaching (so far I have the meteorologist and comms people on camera, next up is the medic if we get a chance). If there are any photos or bits of film that you can think of then please post on the comments section and I will try to get them forwarded to me in Antarctica. Obviously if I leave tomorrow then I won’t be able to do much about them, but if I’m here for Christmas I’ll have more time.

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