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22.12.09
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I am pleased to say that the comments on the 'Ask us a Question' page our now back online. Sincere apologies to the many amongst you who have been sending your messages and wondering what had happened to them - there was a slight technical hitch, now resolved. I'll be passing on some Christmas messages on the 24th. There's no way I could read them all out but, if you've got a message for the team then by all means submit now!
Oh yes, I almost forgot: we have some news from one of those girls doing that whole "South Pole thing". Era, I think her name is... - Tim (UK Support)
Era (Brunei)'s PodCast:
Link to Podcast
Era's PodCast in writing:
"Hi everyone, Era here. Today I'm doing the UK voice mail. I'm gonna talk about keeping warm in Antarctica.
Well the past 2 days, today and yesterday, were a bit chilly. It's been hard to keep warm especially when we're not moving. It's OK while we're skiing but during the breaks - we have about 7 minutes breaks - it's hard to keep the heat in.
We're trying to slow the cool down by putting on our down jackets but apparently when you start eating and drinking, a lot of your energy is used to digest that food and drink so the heat goes away from you fingertips and toes and stuff so you feel cold anyway.
Sometimes you just wish you could go on for 2 hours and then have a break, it's a bit hard because we need toilet breaks and stuff like that. So one of the ways we keep warm is jumping up and down, doing punches in the air. Everything really to get circulation back into the fingertips and the toes.
What else? Another part of the body that gets cold is the face, it's a dilemma. We wear gorilla masks and you don't want to move them around. You want to keep it on there because you've got you goggles on your gorilla mask and if you move your gorilla mask - a bit to the right or a bit to the left - or take off the nose bit and stuff like that. The gorilla mask is a kind of balaclava, it keeps the wind off your face and stuff like that. So you don't want to move it around too much or else, its fogs your goggles up. Sometimes during the breaks, you're trying to get food in and it's hard to get it in through the mask because it just freezes from your breath, the condensation of your breath. So, we get icicles around our masks, which is quite interesting and we've taken quite a few pictures..."
Photo by Robert Hollingworth