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To the plane out to thwaites divide. i can't wait to get out and start the next phase of the melt project. you can't fly straight to thwaites, there's no ice runway that can take these big planes. so the 1,300 milejourney is done in stages. thwaites divide is the project's staging post in the middle of the west antarctic ice sheet. this is where passengers fuel and cargo are dropped off before being ferried on to the field sites on the glacier itself. the plan is only to stay here for a couple of days, but this being antarctica, it's not long before the weather changes again. so we've been out...

They say we won't fly anywhere. one only does anything in antarctica with the cooperation of the weather. antarctica is a place of extremes. it is the coldest, highest, driest and windiest continent on earth. capped by an ice sheet of up to five kilometres thick, this continent contains 90% of the world's ice. i begin myjourney in new zealand. i don't need your passport, that's all good. they say travelling to antarctica is like travelling to another planet. so, here goes. the us air force provides the planes. the safety briefing may be

So, here goes. the us air force provides the planes. the safety briefing may be familiar, but nothing else about this flight is. i'm travelling with professor david vaughan, the director of science at the british antarctic survey. after flying due south for five hours, i get my first glimpse of antarctica, snow and ice stretching as far as the eye can see. finally, our destination. we are heading to mcmurdo. which is pretty much straight off over there. it is the last fingerhold

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Itching to get cracking. so we are super excited. we're out at lilyfield and we're finally about to get to the plane out to thwaites divide. i can't wait to get out and start the next phase of the melt project. you can't fly straight to thwaites, there's no ice runway that can take these big planes. so the 1,300 milejourney is done in stages. thwaites divide is the project's staging post in the middle of the west antarctic ice sheet. this is where passengers fuel and cargo are dropped off before being ferried on to the field sites on the glacier itself. the plan is only to stay here for a coup...