What a view
Nothing beats the view, when working on glaciers. Also a reason to not only work…
Eclipse
Sometimes you are just lucky. Two days ago I didn’t even know that we would…
Roping up
Time to get on the glacier surface. We spent the day yesterday opening up a…
Happy days
A happy bunch reemerging after cave survey.
The mooring is out
First achievement of the day: Getting our mooring out in front of the glacier at…
Cave mapping
We managed to not only explore but also map the entire cave until the end….
Cave exploration
There is always a solution to a problem. Even a cave full of water can…
Did someone say cave?
I promised to take him caving. The only problem: June is not necessarily the best…
Practicing the ropes
Practicing and testing different types of snow anchors. I had hoped for some realistic practice…
Wet feet
Trying to reach a small glacier nearby today to practice crevasse rescue under real conditions….
May I present? The mooring
The weather forecast promised sun, instead we got rain and horizontally blowing snow. A good…
French field assistant
When you bring a french field assistant and he puts together his glacier safety equipment…