Antarctica Ahoy!

Around Scott Base

Expedition Begins

Exploration Area

Exploration Routes

Plateau Loop map

Polar Plateau

Icy Panorama

East Quartzite Range

West Quartzite Range

Upper Glacier

Glacier Route

Middle Glacier

Lower Glacier

Final Stretch

Destination

Conclusion

Diary: Introduction

Diary: Preparation

Diary: Polar Plateau

Diary: Quartzite Xmas

Diary: Into the Glacier

Diary: Home Run

Appendix: Polar Life

Appendix: Logistics

Appendix: Mapping

Thanks

 Antarctica with the exploration area marked.

Tararua Antarctic Expedition, 1962-63

Destination

Richly textured ice-scape.

Tucker-Pearl Harbour glacier confluence,
west from the airlift point. 23 January.

The glacier edge is 8 km (5 miles) away.

East from the Tucker Glacier airlift point.

Giant peaks surround the Tucker Glacier.

Southeast and down-glacier from the airlift point.

Ice architecture.
We built an igloo and an arch
to release exuberant energy
from completing the trip.

Distant peaks look close in the clear air.
Mt. Pearson, photographed 50 km away
through binoculars from the airlift point.

One person can rescue another from a crevasse. John emerges from the crevasse to much hoopla.

In the two-rope method of crevasse rescue,
the victim steps out of a crevasse
in rope loops that are alternately raised.

Left: Gerald Holdsworth operates the two-rope rescue method.
Others supervise the rescue of John Hayton from the hand-dug "crevasse".

Right: John emerges smiling from the crevasse.

Conclusion