Traverse Tour

The traverse comes from McMurdo and brings us fuel. It takes about a month for them to get here and about two weeks to get back. It is a group of ten people that drive the tractors and ferry the fuel cargo to us.  

  This is their bed rooms. Five rooms, two to a room.

  Big giant sled that gets dragged.

 The kitchen.

The route, the place I’m pointing is called the “Sastrugi National Park” and the sastrugis get 5 to 6 feet tall. It is about 1000 miles to get from McMurdo to the South Pole by this route.

  One of the tractors.

This tractor goes in front and the inner tube looking thing is scanning the ice in front of them for possible crevasses.

 

This is what the fuel bladders looked like before they were emptied. The traverse will leave back to McMurdo this Thursday and the second traverse will get here around Christmas.