Sat, 16 December 2023
Several years of Macquarie Island winters receive attention as I chill out under a Casuarina after several fraught months. |
Fri, 15 December 2023
I give voice to another almost but not quite lost snippet from "Big Dead Place" and I give the microphone to Adam Fitzgerald who voices the introduction to Jeff Maynard's new book, "The Frontier Below."
Direct download: 153_How_to_climb_erebus_on_your_day_off.mp3
Category:mixed bag -- posted at: 3:09pm EDT |
Thu, 30 November 2023
In 1983 Australian glaciologist Trevor Hamley joined a Soviet traverse from the Russian coastal station, Mirny, to Dome Charlie, high atop the Antarctic plateau. Bouncing about in the back of a T-55 tank converted into a living quarters/galley/dining space/lab, recording locations on audio cassette tape, wielding a hammer, and ignoring the ideological and political drivers of the cold war in the name of survival, camaraderie, and science, Trevor experienced Antarctica in a unique context at a unique point in history. |