In November, 1997 I flew to New Zealand and then by Hercules aircraft to McMurdo station, Antarctica to do some upgrades on VLF receiver systems at South Pole and some of the remote Automatic Geophysical Observatories.
In preparation for remote field work, we spent a day and a night practicing Antarctic survival on the Ross ice shelf.
Next I flew south up the Ross ice shelf
and arrived at South Pole station.
At Pole I acclimatized and worked on some maintenance of our receiver there. Here I am enjoying the continuous daylight and -30 C breeze at the geographic south pole and at the nearby ceremonial south pole.
After a few days seven of us travelled by Twin Otter with LOTS of camping gear and scientific equipment to our first AGO site.
Here is an AGO.
And here is our camp, AGO2, and a VLF antenna before my upgrade, hundreds of kilometers from Pole, at 2000 m on the Antarctic plateau.
Here is our happy crew, waiting for an air-drop.
After nearly two weeks, we were picked up by a ski-equipped LC130 ...
and taken back to Pole. After servicing another similar site, I flew back over some of the largest glaciers on Earth to McMurdo,
and then north towards New Zealand.