South Pole, Antarctica Travel Blogs

No turning back
Apr 25, 2007 (16 photos)

... went up when we saw what we guessed was an iceberg!.    Thankfully our captain was most experienced flying in Antarctica, and we carried a meteorologist on board, as well as our expert who had wintered in the Antarctic wilds at least 3 winters ...

Ron goes to the South Pole
Dec 17, 2007 (10 photos)

... Supply Department to get the Boondoggle (aka usually fun working trip) of the year....to go help out the Supply Department at the South Pole Station. Most of the time (unless you actually work at the Pole), McMurdo-ites only get to go for day trips--as ...

Kitten Tongue
Nov 13, 2005

... a month, I am not sure that love will be able to find me at the bottom of the world, just to cold and to far south. But you never know.........please remember this email is because I have nothing else to write about so just enjoy. So I have to go to ...

Just another manic monday.....
Nov 1, 2005

Howdy, All day long yesterday I keep checking the internet and finally after my work out there it was on foxsports.com Broncos 49 Eagles 21. Well Done, Well Done. I really miss watching on Fox-TB,Howie,Jimmy and JP before the game, they are just so ...

Address
Nov 6, 2005

Well here is my address just in case anyone wants to send stuff: Katie Contos, RPSC South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 APO AP 96598 Mail is slow so it will take about 6 weeks to get here. Please don't send the foam packing peanuts, not ...

A little story
Dec 14, 2005

... doing really good and being safe. I miss you all and think and TALK about all of you all the time. I think that the south pole nows all about the family and friends of one Katie M. Contos. Chapter 6: Korah Marie I would like to welcome Korah Marie ...

Long overdo
Jan 2, 2006

... so I am so excited. Chapter 8-DV's So on Saturday we have a ton of distinguished visitors coming to the South Pole, Senators and Representatives from 12 different states are coming including Sen. John McCain(R-Arizona). So every Saturday I run the ...

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!
Nov 25, 2005

... For all my family and friends, that they are happy and healthy! #2-Something I never thought I would say, for being at the SOUTH POLE and having this opportunity, I am so happy right now! #3-For all my family and friends supporting me in the weird shit I ...

OK!
Dec 1, 2005

... only to be about 70% complete when everything was lost!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I am going to either have to send the pictures through my south pole account or hotmail or even another site. Sorry folks and I wish I could put them here but just to much time ...

Mile High x 2
Nov 8, 2005

... describe it is really bad blood rush when you stand up to fast but it last for a while. So that is your lesson from the south pole today. I hope everyone had a nice weekend. I learned how to play Cribage last night, it was fun. My partner Shelly and I ...

This is an exciting one!
Nov 17, 2005

... night he made it, fancied it up a little but he made it. Everyone loved it! So mom your dinner was made at the south pole. I was so happy. Everyone is preparing for Thanksgiving here. I am so excited it sounds like a really fun time. I will tell you ...

I'm your huckelberry
Dec 9, 2005

... god! From emails I have received it sounds pretty cold in the states. Just think of it as sending you all a little love from south pole. HE!HE! So I was unable to go Snow Staking. Snow Staking is done by the weather group here and you go about 12 to ...

Thanksgiving
Nov 29, 2005

... to Summercamp Lounge with a bunch of people. So a bunch of people (non-sober boys) decided to go sledding. But Katie isn't the South Pole flat? The answer is yes however, we push the snow into huge, huge stories high hills to get it where we want it and ...

Pink panther
Oct 27, 2005

... that mascara will not stay on outside in the super cold. So I am going to invent ICE mascara especially for the women of Antarctica and along with the a line of fun carharts. HE!HE! I feel pretty good today,well rested pretty much for the first time ...

Back in the game!
Dec 6, 2005

... takes 10 hours. So it will be fun. I will def. send pictures. Well it is time for me to go eat breaky and go to work so I will email in a few days and let you know about Snow Steaking and anything else that has happened here at the pole! Love ya, KMC

SOUTH POLE BABY
Oct 25, 2005

Hello from the bottom of the world. Well I made it! ON friday Oct. 21st I landed at the south pole. I have pictures of course and will enter them later. First of all,my best way to describe it here, is like being on the moon but unfort. I am not ...

A typical situation
Dec 15, 2005

So I thought I would tell you a typical day for me at the south pole. Well at least this is how Monday-Friday works, weekends are normally a little different! 4:00am-4:30am Wake up Whenever I wake up til about 4:45am Wash Face/get dressed I use to ...

90 minutes
Nov 3, 2005

... something off and for some reason my left leg is hurting. Well it seems that everyday is very different for me at the south pole. The mornings are especially always a little wacky. So yesterday went to take the trash out and really didn't feel like it ...

INVASION
Nov 22, 2005

... of all I have to say that the Broncos rock and on that same note OSU for beating Michigan! I knew, I knew if I went to the South Pole Broncos would have a winning season. I only hope that they take it all the way. OK so I am being invaded by GERMS! ...

Cloudy with a chance of a day off
Nov 11, 2005

... it doesn't really snow a few flakes few. FUN FACT: But you are probably thinking....Katie doesn't it snow at the south pole well "Actual snowflakes (branched crystals) are pretty rare at the South Pole, and generally are only seen during the warmest ...

Trick or Treat or a Broncos win
Oct 31, 2005

Good Morning friends and family, Well HAPPY HALLOWEEN from the south pole. I am preparing to start a new week here while all of you I imagine are enjoying a b-e-autiful sunday back in the states. I really hope that the broncos great a halloween trick ...

First Day Off
Oct 30, 2005

Hi all, So first of all you in the check out the pictures I have added pictures to the McCurdo Entry so make sure to check them out. I will only be able to add pictures on my day off because it takes forever. Tonight is the Halloween party, I am so ...

Otter Pops and Wine
Nov 5, 2005

Hello, Well first of all let me take a quick flashback to last Saturday night and the Halloween party. It was really fun. I was a Cowboy but couldn't find a gun and ended up finding a space looking gun. So I ended up being a space cowboy. It was fun ...

A little about Polie culture
Dec 2, 2008 (2 photos)

... ." Further discussion at dinner confirmed that if a cataclysmic event takes place and we're left to fend for ourselves at the Pole, scrawny, hairy Austin Lewis will not be the first to be killed and eaten. Well thank God for that.  Maybe I' ...

Trip to the Pole
Nov 16, 2008

... our belongings palletized in cargo nets in the back of the large cargo hold in which we sit. 11/9 I'm at the South Pole. It's a little past midnight, and my thick curtain can barely block the intense sunlight through the window of my ...

Just another day?
Nov 28, 2008 (1 photos)

Today I guided in a plane.  It was pretty slow at the heavy VMF--vehicle maintenance facility--so one of the fuelies dropped by and asked if I wanted to do something fun. Before I knew it, I was out on the "flight deck" (a large area of ice ...

I'm still down here.
Jan 20, 2009 (3 photos)

... a week, so the impending epidemic will be an especially sour note to end on. I had already heard through the South Pole sewing circle rumor mill that this particular dentist already had a reputation for being "psychotic."  Imagine Little Shop of ...

Fighting Fire with... whatever
Dec 1, 2008

... eventuality clad in our Personal Protective Equipment rated to withstand 1400F temperatures.  But it was 50 below, and my Self Contained Breathing Apparatus had a leak in the hose. Have no fear, citizens of Earth; your South Pole is in good hands.

Christmas at the Wrong Pole
Dec 27, 2008 (6 photos)

... The Polies bitched and moaned Their tired lamentation Of headaches and nausea And feeling really shitty. When you're at the South Pole Even Santa shows no pity. OK, I know the poem was dumb, but there's nothing like a collective Yuletide ...

Camping
Dec 20, 2008 (5 photos)

... they had become the first group to ever, as far as I know, create a full-on igloo while camping at the South Pole.  It was magnificent, like something an inbred Eskimo outcast would store his embarrassing purchase of popsicles in.  Impressive, ...