My Journey To The Ice

My ex-roomate works for science support.  She trains scientists in field safety before they go out to the harsh and dangerous environment.  She is also part of the Search and Rescue Team.  She has the coolest job here.  She has gone to the most amazing places in this area.  Anyway, she took me out to this area last week called the Pressure Ridges.  This is where the Ross Ice Shelf converges with the sea ice.  The ice shelf is bigger and stronger than the sea ice, so when the pressure becomes too much, the sea ice cracks and pushes up, kind of like an earthquake, but different.  Anyway, we took a stroll around the pressure ridges and it was the most amazing landscape I had ever viewed.  Large chunks of ice, standing straight up.  Totally surreal.  Very much like being off planet. Of course, we both forgot our cameras.  Then I fell into a crevasse.  I didn’t go far.  It was pretty neat.  And it smelled like fish.  And seal.  There was year old seal poo and pee around.  It freezes.  What a concept.

This is the link for Karen’s photography website.  It has awsome pics of Antartica.  I highly recommend checking it out because I will never get photos like this.
http://www.karenhilton.com/section180375.html

I also recommend checking out her blog from last season.  It gives a lot technical information about Antarctica and what we are all doing here.
http://karenhilton.blogspot.com/