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  1. 3rd January 2014, 10:12 AM #141
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    A hard call for Ben and Tarka

    Ref; Resupply | Blog | The Scott Expedition

    I read Ben and Tarka's blog, they were in trouble and I am so pleased that they taken this action to remain safe.

    My idea was to call for a resupply. To have more food and fuel flown to our position so that we could rest and recover before finishing this journey. A decision that changes the status of this expedition from "unsupported" or "unassisted" or whatever semantics you wish to choose to the opposite. Part of me also feels it inevitable that we and this journey would face critics even if we'd done it in period clothing eating pemmican and pony meat. Yet in an instant I realised that my and Tarka's lives are not something I wanted to gamble with, and that we had given our all. We were lucky that neither of us had collapsed the day before, and I knew we couldn't possibly have hoped to recover on our meagre rations from the physical holes we'd dug ourselves into.

    At the other end of the world, on the other end of a crackling and hissing satellite phone line, our expedition manager Andy Ward sprang into action, and things happened incredibly quickly, with a ski-plane carrying eight days' of rations landing twelve hours later

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    Passengers relieved after Antarctic rescue

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    THE stranded passengers aboard a research ship stuck in sea ice in Antarctica are heading home, although it will be a few weeks before they dock in Hobart.

    A total of 52 people were rescued in helicopter transfers to an Australian icebreaker on Thursday, with the operation taking four hours to complete.

    Expedition leader Chris Turney said the scientists, tourists and journalists stuck on board the Akademik Shokalskiy since Christmas Eve had been airlifted to safety and had arrived at the rescue ship.

    "We've made it to the Aurora australis safe & sound. A huge thanks to the Chinese & @AusAntarctic for all their hard work! #spiritofmawson."

    Passengers, many of them Australians and New Zealanders, were picked up by a helicopter from the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long and transferred to the Australian Antarctic Division supply ship.

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    Passengers from ship trapped in ice safe on Aurora Australis

    Ref; An article written by Nicky Phillips.
    Nicky Phillips and Colin Cosier are travelling in Antarctica as part of the Australian Antarctic Division's media program.

    The joint rescue effort was a credit to all involved.
    Passengers from ship trapped in ice safe on Aurora Australis
    Read more: Passengers from ship trapped in ice safe on Aurora Australis


    What's going on here? An Adelie penguin (bottom of frame) is curious as the helicopter lands on a floe. Photo: Nicky Phillips

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    Back to tractors

    The French traverse tractor.

    Any guesses what the headlights are for in 24 hour daylight?

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    for when they have 24 hour night? or when they operate in white out/cloud/fog.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stallie View Post
    The French traverse tractor.
    Any guesses what the headlights are for in 24 hour daylight?
    I asked my Wife what she thought they used them for and she replied.

    "To see with."
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    whiteout

    [QUOTE=stallie;2058904]The French traverse tractor.
    Any guesses what the headlights are for in 24 hour daylight?

    My guess is seeing the depressions in the snow where the crevasses are snow bridged, during white out conditions???

    But don't they use ground radar for that?
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  9. 6th January 2014, 12:29 PM #149
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    the big head lights help with light from a different angle to spot crevase, different snow and stuff.
    Suppose the different color / temperature of the light helps as well.

    When it is all white ground, all white sky all white air there is not much to use to differentiate the contours of the ground

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    Day 75, Ben and Tarka have words, Ben lolloping along

    Ben and Tarka had a few words today, after Tarka in the first leg of the day stretched out a large lead, his thoughts were to get off the plateau as soon as possible and Ben is still having trouble keeping up the pace.

    They are still on the Antarctic plateau, but with less then 700 Miles to go and the decent of Beardmore glacier in a few days time.

    Ref; Lolloping (Day 75) | Blog | The Scott Expedition
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