News

This section is featuring the latest news regarding adventure in the polar regions and from the expeditions we are following closely.

• The Indians are back, the Kazakhstans will depart soon

  Published on 05.12.2010 - Arctic Trucks Expeditions 2010

  This Arctic Trucks company has a lot to do in the Antarctic this season. The first expedition (the Indians) was a great success. Now it's the turn of the Kazsakhstan researchers to go on the ice and drive towards the South Pole aswell.

• Back in Porto Williams

  Published on 05.12.2010 - Yacht Australis 2010

  Now that the Yacht Australis is back to South America, Doug Stoup makes a global recap of what adventures and great moments he and his clients have shared during this Australis Ice Axe Ski Cruise 2010.

• First setbacks for the Moon/Regan Expedition

  Published on 29.11.2010 - Moon Regan TransAntarctic Expedition

  The Andrew Moon / Andrew Regan Expedition to the South Pole had hardly started when serious mechanical problems with the vehicles occurred. But the men are on the way and, after a fashion, the convoy is making progress.

• Return trip Novolazarevskaya - South Pole using all-terrain vehicles

  Published on 28.11.2010 - Arctic Trucks Expeditions 2010

  Times change, techniques too. Today, you can travel from the Antarctic Coast to the South Pole and back in an all-terrain vehicle. The round trip takes about a week!

• Going where no one has ever been before

  Published on 28.11.2010 - The Fuchs Foundation

  Just like the other teams, the four teachers of the Fuchs Foundation have been dropped off at Hercules Inlet the day after their arrival at Union Glacier basecamp -the classical starting point for expeditions heading to the SP. From there, they took another direction : going where no one's been before.

• After fifteen days waiting, finally the flight to Antarctica

  Published on 28.11.2010 - The Fuchs Foundation

  Seldom polar travellers take us into the inside of the waiting of the flight between Punta and Antarctica. This time, we take the opportunity of Lisa Wood's writings (Lisa is one of the four members of the Fuchs Foundation) to publish some excerpts of the expedition's blog.

• A tough start for Horst

  Published on 28.11.2010 - One step at a time

  Like all the other teams, the pair Hannah McKeand (the guide) / Willem ter Horst (her client) arrived at ALE's Union Glacier Camp on the 25th November. Horst had left home three weeks before. 

• After waiting so long…

  Published on 28.11.2010 - The South Pole and Back (solo)

  After a long wait of more than a week in Punta, Briton Chris Foot has finally made it to the sixth Continent, together with the other teams of this antarctic 2010-2011 season. They all landed at the new ALE base camp Union Glacier on Thursday 25 November at 5 pm GMT.

• 30 year old malt and 10 000 year old ice

  Published on 27.11.2010 - Yacht Australis 2010

  The sloop skippered by the explorer Doug Stoup has just transited the dangerous Drake Passage without let or hindrance. Its tourists are visiting the nooks and crannies of the Antarctic Peninsula. They’re having a whale of a time.

• Goodbye to Patriot Hills - Welcome to Union Glacier

  Published on 18.11.2010 - General Info

  The adventure in the Antarctic is continuing in all its splendour… This is the message that has just been communicated by the ALE operator and his ANI TO announcing the installation of a new base camp at the same time as the opening of a new landing strip on the blue ice.

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