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30.11.09
Keeping hands out of trouble
The sun still shines on the white continent but now has the wind for company. How is Steph (Cyprus) dealing with the cold blow?
Steph (Cyprus)'s PodCast:
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Steph's PodCast in writing:
"Hi everyone, this is Steph. I hope everyone's well. We're definitely doing well down our end. The Antarctic has been very good to us. The weather's still holding up. We've got sun all day.
It's been really windy though lately and we're getting this really icy cold wind from the south and I'm finding it very very hard to keep myself out of trouble and when I mean trouble, I mean getting frostbite for example. I have unfortunately very, very sweaty hands and this is really bad when, when you're in an environment like Antarctica because as soon as you've got any sort of dampness on your hands or any of your clothing, it turns immediately into ice and this could drastically drop your body temperature and eventually cause injury.
So I've been having a very hard time trying to keep my hands out of trouble. Fortunately, each day I've I've been coming out alright. Each day's been a new a new method of trial, of hit and miss on how to keep my hands out of trouble. At the moment what I'm doing is, I'm using a different pair of liner gloves which are the really thin layer that you put on your hands just before you put on your big mitts. Every break, which is every one and a half hours, I change the pair to keep my hands dry when we stop and we're eating and having a drink.
It seems to be working well - touch wood - for the moment so I'm hoping to keep that up. Might be an issue when I start having more breaks, as I'm running out of liner gloves but I think it's all good for the moment.
Apart from that, I think we're all well. The team's still waking up in the morning with a smile, that must mean something. And me, I'm good as well, apart from this msassive fear of frost bite and I'm enjoying it as well.
I hope you're all coming back to the website and enjoying our updates every day. I'm not sure who's on tomorrow but I'm sure it's going to be very, very intersting. Lots of love to everyone. Bye!"
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