Huge ice crystals on the walls of a caveWell, a selection of pics from the last ten days or so on Mt Erebus. The weather was fantastic again after Christmas and we had a great New Year in the sunshine! Happy new year to anyone who's watching the blog. Hopefully this installment will be as good as the rest - after lacking time to take the usual amount of photos in the early season things relaxed a little and I got the camera out more at last. And what a place to photograph.
On another note, Matt Zimmerer had a fall into some rocks on New Years eve and saw in 2009 from his bed! Get well soon Matt and I hope everything is back to normal soon...
New Zealand next, hiking, flying and enjoying the southern summer at it's best before returning to a dark, grey, wet and cold blighty...
Jen Erxleben tries ballet 15ft foot below the ground
Self portrait in the Cucina Cave
John Wood (teacher) doing the usual - "it's for the children!"
The window up out into the real world
Wandering around the crater rim with the Transantarctic mountains behind
Daria Zandomeneghi looks out over Hut Point Peninsula below and Mount Discovery in the distance - all basking in the midnight sun
Jen forging ahead waiting for me to finish taking photos..... ;-)
The lava lake bubbling away 300m down inside the crater
A Christmas Eve explosion - blasting the drill holes for our seismic survey
Mad clouds
Jay Kyne, Ice Core Driller extraordinaire, relaxes after drilling
"ooh, suits you sir!"
A final goodbye to the mountain - the sauna cave fumarole basks in the night sun. What a great season, cheers to everyone there who made it special and see you in NZ...
The last of the Erebus Team in the party cave!
