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Some very unusual weather conditions, very difficult
ice
conditions.
We were too late into the summer; the
ice
was starting to melt; we spoke to the Russian helicopter pilots on the radio, and they said, "Look boys, you've run out of time.
When the
ice
was flat or flattish, I could just about pull both.
When the
ice
wasn't flat, I didn't have a hope in hell.
NASA described the
ice
conditions last year as the worst since records began.
The pack
ice
is always drifting.
I literally couldn't keep up with the drift of the
ice.
Later in the expedition, the problem was no longer the
ice.
And this meant I could ski over very thin ice, and if I fell through, it wasn't the end of the world.
There's nothing there, purely because it's sea
ice.
This was the last day I had on the
ice.
Tony, the expedition manager, he said, "Look Ben, you've got to find 500 meters of flat, thick safe ice."
Troy was smoking a cigarette on the ice; we took a few photos.
Of course, when you're on the ice, you only ever see one obstacle at a time, whether it's a pressure ridge or there's a bit of water.
I remember standing on the edge of the ice, about to dive into the water, and thinking to myself, I have never ever seen any place on this earth which is just so frightening.
And all the way along the glacier we saw these big pools of melting
ice.
I said, "Well, Ben, what do you do?" "I make
ice
cream."
So I said, "Well, you've got to make a rainforest
ice
cream.
The
ice
of Antarctica glows with a light so dazzling, it blinds the unprotected eye.
The weight of the
ice
is such that the entire continent sags below sea level, beneath its weight.
Yet, the
ice
of Antarctica is a calendar of climate change.
It records the annual rise and fall of greenhouse gases and temperatures going back before the onset of the last
ice
ages.
In blizzard winds, the crew sling ropes between the tents so that people can feel their way safely to the nearest
ice
house and to the nearest outhouse.
Indeed, the researchers picked this site because
ice
and snow accumulates here 10 times faster than anywhere else in Antarctica.
Periodically, this drill, like a biopsy needle, plunges thousands of feet deep into the
ice
to extract a marrow of gases and isotopes for analysis.
Ten times a day, they extract the 10-foot long cylinder of compressed
ice
crystals that contain the unsullied air and trace chemicals laid down by snow, season after season for thousands of years.
At the peak of activity earlier this year, the researchers lowered the drill an extra hundred feet deeper into the
ice
every day and another 365 years deeper into the past.
Periodically, they remove a cylinder of ice, like gamekeepers popping a spent shotgun shell from the barrel of a drill.
This
ice
formed as snow 15,800 years ago, when our ancestors were daubing themselves with paint and considering the radical new technology of the alphabet.
Bathed in polarized light and cut in cross-section, this ancient
ice
reveals itself as a mosaic of colors, each one showing how conditions at depth in the
ice
have affected this material at depths where pressures can reach a ton per square inch.
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