Today, both our water systems were set to operate. We now have running hot and cold water in taps, a laundry machine active, a shower, a dishwasher, drinking water on…
Saturday was the first day in a week where the dome didn’t move a whole day. The traverse train had stopped 500 m before the future camp. The science traverse…
Snow conditions are really determining how well a tractor train performs on the ice sheet. Temperature of snow is important: Warm snow (higher than –8C) is soft, while cold snow…
Our team has entered a different mode. Firstly, the Pistenbullys only need three drivers so the remaining nine persons will have to spend long hours inside the dome while it…
It took most of the day to come up with a solution on how to transport our load under the soft snow conditions that were created by very high temperatures…
We spent the whole day making the first heavy traverse fully ready and finishing the loads for the second. Former EGRIP camp is cleaned up, and we moved the dome…
Today, we removed the last infrastructure of EGRIP camp: The electrical power grid. Since 2016, our main generator has supplied a number of power outlets throughout camp via a cable…
As the mechanic’s garage was taken down today, EGRIP camp has no more structures fixed to the snow. Now, everything is on ski or sleds, or in boxes waiting to…
Today, we took down our carpenter’s garage. This is one of the two red garages that together with the black dome have defined the EGRIP camp skyline for ten years,…
Although our garages, our cargo line and storage in our snow ramp appear to be relatively empty, cargo is accumulating in the staging areas around our sled trains. We have…