Audio Dispatch

Hello from Antarctica…
This is Aaron, day two, camp position, South 80 degrees 01 decimal 055 minutes position west 080 degrees 11 decimal 396 minutes. I crossed the very first crevasse field, did ok in it, it was a little bit scary, but I survived. Thank you very much everyone for sending your Solara messages. Jason asked, what it’s like, absolutely incredible. The silence when the wind does stop, which it rarley does is absolute, no matter how much you yell and scream, there’s nothing, really quite strange and erie, I like it. I’ve traveled 4 nautical miles today, over 7 hours and going up hill, was like towing my tire loaded with rocks, incredibly difficult. I noticed that my skis are starting to slow down the sled, so that hard ice is grinding the wax off very quickly. I also had to take my skis off because I kept falling down, the snow is so hard, it was nearly impossible to pull safely, so I’ve been running it, it’s not ideal but better than breaking a wrist. I’m now out of the lower part of Hercules inlet and making my way up to the Wilson Nunatak. Today the sun was out all day and it roasted me. I had to completely change my gear and everything. Can’t believe even though the air is minus 10 degrees the sun will completely make you sweat. I did also drop something about a quarter mile back from my camp but I was able to find it, even in that hard snow so I’ll definitely have to alter my design a bit. Having a good time here, the sun is out the air is still probably minus 10 minus 15 but in the sun it kinda cooks you so it’s a little weird in the tent with that cold air cutting like ice and yet still sitting here slightly warm. Over and out.