Today the drillers used the so-called GRIPper to grab a medium sized piece of fiberglass from the current bottom of the borehole, at around 56m depth. Proving that with a…

Today the drillers used various lengths of the Covax auger to penetrate the ice plug at 51 m depth in the main borehole and poke beyond. Due to stirred up…

Today the main task for the drilling was to free the stuck drill from the edge at 15m depth. After various attempts, the drill fortunately came free. Later different tools…

Today a first attempt of reaming the borehole casing was made with a concrete cutting bit and two antitorque sections to lower slipping in the casing. The reamer went down…

With new people in camp, new projects are being started up. The drillers received a couple of new tools that they will try out in the troublesome casing in the…

Today was a very special day in many ways! First of all, Skier 52 brought 12 new crew members to camp, and secondly one of these crew members is Steff,…

Today the drillers made their first attempts at recovering the fiber glass pieces in the casing to give us access to the deeper part of the GRIP bore hole. This…

The nice weather today again facilitated surface work. Hence, Sepp continued the cable duct work, as well as the work on the storage trench together with Thomas. The balloon is…

Today a major milestone was hit for the solar panel team, as calm and sunny conditions permitted, Charlotte, Jonathan and Rahul to mount the final 7 panels on the dome!…

Today we had a LC130 mission (call sign: Skier 13) scheduled to come here to GRIP, bringing much needed fuel and drill cargo for our camp, and in the afternoon…