The light shines on the glaciers highlighting the ancient blue glacial ice that peeks through the snow that has clung to the icy surface. It reflects off the snow and ice, bouncing up to blind my eyes as I walk across the station. Looking across the Islands and ice bergs it is easy to see that spring is only a few days way
Tag: pondering
Creating a unicorn
how to sell your professional self is a critical part of business success and one that needs practise, practise and more practise
Being enough
It’s my three month anniversary of being in Antarctica and it feels like it has passed super quickly. I have seen some amazing things over the last few months. I’ve flown across oceans full of floating ice-bergs. Sat next to penguins and seals and watched in awe as pods of wild orca’s cruise past. I’ve…
A little red ship
This weekend sees the arrival of the little red taxi, a trip home for 19 expeditioners who have been here for between 4 & 18 months and food and fuel for the 14 of us who remain. We have spent the last week pretending to be amateur weather forecasters poring over the daily charts the…
The final countdown
With two and a bit weeks to go until ‘D’ day a lot has happened. In December I finally met the 12 people that I am going to be living with for the next 10 months. I was so nervous, many sleepless nights about how I was going to start to build the team dynamic…
Missing my family
I am missing my family…. I know that really goes without saying and it is probably really a rather boring sentiment especially when I haven’t even really gone any-were yet. I am only a 1 hour flight away from home, Monday – Thursday I live the single life then Friday, Sat and Sunday night I get to climb…
Jen Wressell 