"According to Turney, there’s 13 miles of ice – 7 feet thick – blocking them from open waters."...
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12/26/13, "Stuck in Antarctica's icy grasp," UK Guardian, Alok Jha
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"Trapped in heavy pack ice just off the coast of Cape de la Motte for the past two days, we await icebreaker assistance." Alok Jha and Laurence Topham are with the Australasian Antarctic Expedition"
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"This is no place for people....
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Antarctica is not just cold, windy and wet. It is the extreme of all those things.
Leave a hole in your armour – a glove not tucked into a sleeve, a gap
around your neck where you forgot your scarf – and the weather will find
and punish you fast. The cold starts off as stabbing, then it sears the
skin and eventually sends the nerve-endings into a symphony of
confusion. I took a glove off to type an email outside at one point and,
after my fingers turned white and I lost the ability to move them, I
swear they felt hot. Painful, boiling hot, as though I had just plunged
them into a cup of coffee....
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Here, people are each other's eyes and ears:
the first sign that the Antarctic conditions are taking their toll is
when people stop moving around, stop talking and turn inwards upon
themselves. Groups are always told to be careful when stepping out but,
almost as important, they are told to keep watch on each other just as
much....
Right now the continent has us in its grasp
and, though help is coming, the continent will decide when to let us go.". Right now the continent has us in its grasp
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12/27/13, "Ship trapped in Antarctic ice must wait longer for rescue," CBSNews.com
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