Flight Day

It is Thursday the 12th of November and we are preparing to fly to Patriot Hills, Antarctica. The call was just made to try and launch, to which a frenzy of activity in-sued. The pick up here at the Condor del Plata hotel is in 30 minutes. From there we have a 30 minute bus ride to the airport were we all must have our passports stamped to exit the country. The we will board the IL-76 Russian jet and prepare for take-off. Once in the air we have a 5 hour flight over to the ice. This will be the first time in 9 months these pilots would have landed on ice, so there is much caution and deliberation before the actual touch down. Once on the ice we will begin the hard task of building the camp at Patriot Hills. The Vinson guide will most likely stay at Patriot Hills long enough to help get the camp mostly established before setting off to build our own camp at the base of Vinson Massif. So the next blog update will most likely come from Vinson Base Camp in a week or mores time. Until then my friends.