Winter at Esperanza Base
Winter has come to Esperanza Base.
Here I share some photos sent my dear friends overwintering there and an excerpt from Duse’s eloquent memoirs.
Winter has come to Esperanza Base.
Here I share some photos sent my dear friends overwintering there and an excerpt from Duse’s eloquent memoirs.
Winter at Hope Bay - MELTING HISTORY
We can only imagine what it meant to spend a winter in this hut. Samuel Duse writes: The worst was during the periods of rough weather when we were forced to stay inside the artificial polar darkness of the stone hut, not disturbed by a single ray of light - perhaps only when a heavier storm tore open the ice plaster in the roof.