Terra Incognita (1997)
“Observed on latrine wall, Central West Antarctica deep field camp RESUMING THE QUEST for Seismic Man and his group, I wheedled my way on to a fuel flight to Central West Antarctica, and after a series of false starts I was transported to the skiway with four members of a science project staging at CWA en route to Ice Stream B. The West Antarctic ice streams – fast-flowing currents of ice up to 50 miles wide and 310 miles long – are cited as evidence of possible glacial retreat and the much-tout...ed imminent rise in global sea levels. The project leader pulled out The Road to Oxiana, the greatest travel book ever written and one which lies so close to my heart that it gave me a shock to see it there, as if the paraphernalia of home had followed me. He was a beatific man in his mid-fifties with a round, mottled face like a moon, and his name was Hermann. Ten years previously, he had climbed out of a crashed plane in Antarctica.
Later, when we were airborne, the scientists retreated into the hoods of their parkas, jamming unwieldily booted feet among the trellis of rollers, survival bags and naked machinery.MoreLess
Later, when we were airborne, the scientists retreated into the hoods of their parkas, jamming unwieldily booted feet among the trellis of rollers, survival bags and naked machinery.MoreLess
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