There You Go, Devon Mcdiarmid

Back in Punta Arenas , getting ready for another Antarctic season . This photos is of one of the last sun sets I’ll see in while 🙂

Tomorrow we will start to finish what he set out to do and finish skiing the last 97nm to the South Pole.

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Happy New Years !!!
Just started a Last 97 nautical mile ski trip to the South Pole . Our team just arrived at the point where Shackleton turned around .

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Arrived at Pole on Dec 1 st , late in the day. About 36 hrs we had camp built and fully functioning .
Now waiting for the 1 of the expeditions to arrive !

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Trying to get to South Pole to build our tent camp, but stiff winds and cold temps hold us back for now. Otherwise all is well on the ice .

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Back on the ice!!! Great flight from Chile to Union Glacier. Back with old work mates and many new . Blue sky , light wind at base camp :)

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Leaving for Chile , then the ice .

Since 2000 , this will be season 10. Looking forward to meeting new and old work mates and seeing what stories come from this year !

Testing one

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journey home ....

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ruff ground .
A good season over all , with a good ski expedition team , and a very strong kiting team member Stew .
Now the long

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Antarctica.
The ski expedition went smoothly with very little issues . The kite portion too went smoothly , besides the incredibly

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very happy to have successfully completed out 1200 km kite journey . 9 days , and 9 hours into our tenth day , we got to the coast of

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