Had a fantastic time in Oslo last weekend, catching up with the crew of Draken Harald Hårfarge
@drakenhh
+ watching episodes from the expedition documentary. It's currently being shown in the UK on Sky History so catch it if you can!
#Viking
#History
Stepping ashore on Point Wild, Elephant Island, to walk in the footsteps of the crew of the Endurance that remained behind waiting for rescue.
#Antarctica
#SouthGeorgia
First day in my new job + things are going in a different direction. Excited to let you know I'm the new UK Antarctic Heritage Trust Field Operations Coordinator. Currently Cambridge based, but later I'll be going South to lead the teams we send into the field
#Antarctica
With official approval now in the bag + travel arrangements made, I'm very excited to let you know about my next adventure. I'm going to be heading South, to spend a season working for the South Georgia Heritage Trust at their base in Grytviken, South Georgia ❄️🐧
📷: SGHT
Heading over the hills from Glenelg to Shiel Bridge on the first day of my TGO Challenge route. Managed to dodge the foul weather by being the last to sign out and start walking
#TGOChallenge
A dream come true over the last couple of days with a visit to the outermost island of the Hebrides. Sailing to St Kilda on Blue Clipper
#sailing
#Scotland
Out on a ranger patrol in Narnia this morning. Making sure those fauns are following the outdoor access code + all lions are on a lead.
#Cairngorms
#snow
#RangerDiary
@rowena_kay
YES. A staycation is putting the fancy sheets + towels out in your house, drinking mid-afternoon cocktails in your garden, local walks from your door, + ordering a takeaway to go with your film night.
Otherwise it's a holiday. Like every other holiday where you go somewhere else.
Elephant Island, Antarctica. The starting point for one of the most incredible sailing voyages ever undertaken, as the James Caird set out into the Southern Ocean bound for South Georgia.
#Antarctica
#SouthGeorgia
A scramble up the scree, through the gulley, then threading the needle to the top of Mount Duse, the peak that looms over King Edward Point, to find the spot where Frank Hurley photographed the Endurance at anchor from in 1914
#SouthGeorgia
I speak to many people on patrol, but sometimes I miss ones I really want to talk to. Like these campers, to thank them for a tidy camp + following landowner guidance on fires. Most campers I meet are responsible,
#LeaveNoTrace
+ are happy to chat to rangers
#CairngormsTogether
They can't count to 5 + miss my title as Field Operations Coordinator in the article, but I'm be heading to
#Antarctica
for the next 5 months or so, most of my time in this team, but also leading the conservation team field camp at another historic site
I'm very excited to share the news about my new adventure. I'll be heading to
#Antarctica
🇦🇶 in a few weeks to start work at the Penguin Post Office at Port Lockroy! I'll be helping the team run the post office and shop, while keeping an eye on the locals for the season 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧
Never disappointed to see Cape Disappointment, South Georgia, at the end of the crossing from Elephant Island, followed a slow ship's cruise into icy Drygalski Fjord
#Antarctica
#SouthGeorgia
@LifeAfloat
What you're doing is bringing a bit of adventure into our lives + sharing a beautiful part of the world in a way that few will ever see for themselves. Thank you for taking us along + sharing these updates with us.
A beautiful day for a hike/scramble up Mount Skottsberg, between Maiviken and Grytviken, followed by a slither down some scree slopes. Skottsberg was named for the botanist of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1902.
#SouthGeorgia
Sailing to the otherworldly island of Boreray + the sea stacks, home to the largest colony of northern gannets in the world + once home to the last of the great auks
#StKilda
#sailing
#Scotland
I'm very excited to share that I've returned to work as a Seasonal Ranger in the Cairngorms National Park. The team had a virtual catch up today before we start back out on the ground, ready to welcome you back once restrictions ease
#CairngormsTogether
#Cairngorms
#Scotland
@poornabell
I saw a GP for a medical for an activity about 10 years back where he told me my BMI was bad and suggested I join the local health walk group to improve my fitness. I had to tell him that would get in the way of my training program for the London Marathon.
An early start this morning to go on patrol, and a bit of an unexpected surprise. I love watching the snow fall, so thought I'd share it with you all
#snow
#CairngormsTogether
A couple of days in Patagonia crossing from Argentina to Chile, then back again to reset my visa, followed by an unexpected 12 hour bus trip with one ferry and two bonus border crossings, and I'm on my way back to work on possibly my most exciting adventure. Ushuaia, here I come
Today, 5th Jan 2022, marks 100 years since the death of Ernest Shackleton, recognised as one of the great explorers of the Heroic Age. The cross at Hope Point, erected by the crew of the Quest, still stands as a memorial to him
#SouthGeorgia
#Shackleton100
Real hiking attire for women has POCKETS. And allows you to pee in the wild without getting completely naked. While providing protection from biting insects + the sun (driving sideways rain in Scotland). And did I say pockets?
#pocketsforwomen
#getoutside
The view from the summit of Mount Hodges seems almost Himalayan in grandeur + scale. Hodges is the tallest of the sharp peaks that loom over the settlement at Grytviken.
#SouthGeorgia
Absolutely sensational day in the Cairngorms yesterday, working with partners to transport willow saplings into the Loch Avon basin ready for planting over the next few days as part of montane scrub habitat regeneration work.
I'm very excited to let you all know that I've started a new job, working for the Cairngorms National Park as a seasonal ranger, covering the Deeside area. I'll be helping welcome people back to the park once COVID lockdown restrictions are eased.
It's my birthday today, so I decided we'd climb a few hills for some superb Lake District views. Looking forward to spending the rest of the day in my pyjamas drinking some fizz, playing Scrabble + getting a takeaway in. 🎂🎉🎆🎁
Sometimes things don't work out + plans change. But then the alternate route turns out to be far better than you could have ever imagined. Home (briefly) after exploring the most magical places on earth + working with an incredible team
@ae_expeditions
.
#Antarctica
#SouthGeorgia
So, that's it. From today I'll be in the
#PenguinPost
office, and out of touch, working in
#Antarctica
for the next four months. Keep in touch with our blog at and see you again in March 🇦🇶❄️🐧✉️
There's an Icelandic tradition called
#Jolabokaflod
, the Yule book flood, where folk gift books then gather together to read in cosy companionship. Pyjamas on, a wee drink mixed, candles lit + new book ready to begin. What are you reading tonight?
#ChristmasEve
#amreading
#book
Found on of the most beautiful places on my patrol, a national nature reserve filled with incredible wildlife, rare places + spectacular trees. A painted pebble does nothing to enhance this place.
#LeaveNoTrace
isn't just about littering
#CairngormsTogether
#RespectProtectEnjoy
First day back in the office again as seasonal ranger for the Cairngorms National Park. Just a few wee snow showers while out on patrol around Ballater this afternoon
#Cairngorms
Very excited to see new bilingual road signs at the eastern edge of the Cairngorms reflecting the local use of Doric dialect. Don't get lost + end up in Fort William!
#Aberdeenshire
#Doric
#Scots
#Gaelic
Not once in my working life have I come anywhere close to earning a salary that would permit me to emigrate to my own country in this case. I doubt I'm the only one.
🚨 BREAKING: Rishi Sunak will increase the salary threshold so that EVERY migrant has to earn over £38k before coming to Britain in a major plan to slash migration
He will also announce new limits on them bringing family
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@JackElsom
]
@ryanaboyd
I hate Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is just so wet. What a disappointment. And Rochester is awful.
Especially after learning about Antoinette in the Attic. Best part of the book. Or her own book, Wide Sargasso Sea, which is much better than Jane Eyre.
Happy
#PenguinAwarenessDay
. Last southern summer in Antarctica was the warmest yet + our
#PortLockroy
penguin chicks didn't experience snowfall until very late in the season. They were mesmerised, snapping at flakes + making an unusual cooing sound.
@AntarcticHT
@BAS_News
The view from last night's sleep spot. Followed up by a wander to my nearest mountain, a couple more trig points + a dip in a bog pool today. Now it's time for an afternoon nap.
The outdoors, our hills, mountains and coasts, are there for everyone. But there's no place for those sharing the attitudes in those nasty comments or gatekeeping access for others.
"Proper Walkers"!? 🤔 😮 Just some of nasty comments received after images of our Xmas Day hike were shared on a Facebook group called 'Derbyshire & Peak District Walks'.
#MuslimHikers
#OutdoorsForAll
How to get over the fact your feet are a bit trashed from four days of walking in wet boots: Pizza, beer + a book about polar explorers having a shite time on the Ice.
#TGOChallenge
My arrival at Port Lockroy 3 weeks ago was the snowiest I'd ever seen, including in pictures from the archives. But missing from the scene was the fast ice that usually connects Goudier Island to Jougla Point + lots of brashy ice surrounding the island.
#PortLockroy
#Antarctica
I've reached the halfway point! I did not feel like smiling after last night's 30kts of wind + torrential rain and barely kept awake enough to finish my beer.
#TGOChallenge
4th January 1922. With Quest at anchor at Grytviken, Shackleton wrote in his journal "A wonderful evening. In the darkening twilight I saw a lone star hover, gem-like above the bay". The Boss died in the early hours of the following day. He was 47.
#SouthGeorgia
#Shackleton100
Getting very excited by the first glimpse of Loch Ness from the Affric Kintail Way. Then it had boats! And ducks! And a haunted castle! And it gave me a nice break from walking for an hour or so.
#TGOChallenge
#LochNess
My last couple of days in the Falklands before heading north this morning couldn't have been better for getting out + exploring the landscape. View of Two Sisters and Mount Kent from the top of Tumbledown.
#FalklandIslands
#Falklands40
@oldenoughtosay
A shallow root network weaving the trees together with the top layers of the soil within a conifer plantation, over a very hard lower soil/rock horizon. As the wind is blowing the tree down, the meshed roots of all the other trees are holding it back in position.
I don't often post my most personal things here, but today I heard my mam's heart surgery went very well, she's been moved from ITU to the high dependency ward + they've been able to let my Dad in to visit her tonight. Just full of emotions right now.
Puppysitting at my sister's this weekend. 30 secs after arriving the pup jumped in my face + burst my lip open, then pooped on the floor while I was cleaning up the blood. Now she's sitting on the sofa like cuteness personified rather than the wee goblin I know she is.
My cosy wee base for a week of exploring the Lake District National Park. Plenty of space to spread out the maps + guides this evening to plan some walks + paddles for the next few days.
#LakeDistrict
I'm leaving behind
#PortLockroy
for a couple of weeks, hitching a lift to the Falkland Islands for a few days of work preparing for the
@AntarcticHT
conservation field camp in the new year. I wonder if all the snow will be gone when I get back?
#PenguinPostOffice
#Antarctica
Looking across Cumberland Bay West towards Carlita and up to the Lyall Glacier from Harpon. This really is one of the most spectacular places I've had the privilege to visit
#SouthGeorgia
"October is the coloured month here, far more brilliant than June, blazing more sharply than August" - Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain
#Cairngorms
#CairngormsAutumnViews
There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing. Although after four hours of this, I'm glad to now be running a bath at my BnB for the night.
So pleased to hear about removal of single use BBQs from the
@coopuk
in Kingussie after a wildfire in Glenmore. Would love to see the same from stores in Ballater + Braemar, to help us protect the special environment in our local part of the Cairngorms National Park
#Cairngorms
1/If weather and ice conditions have been favourable, the Penguin Post Office team should be arriving at Port Lockroy within the next couple of days. So what do you think of our new home?
#Antarctica
#PenguinPost
🌐64.82S 63.49W 📍Port Lockroy
📷:UKAHT
@AntarcticHT
@GovBAT
Hey twitter folks, anyone know of organisations in Scotland that can make use of discarded camping gear to help refugees, the homeless, or other groups in need?
Arrived home, though there's still three days walking left to reach the east coast in my
#TGOChallenge
route. Was very nice of them to arrange a low level flyover by a Hercules to welcome me back into Ballater.
Endex blues hitting very hard right now. After a great day out hiking up to Glacier Col, I've found that new ship schedules mean our departure has been moved forward four days. Heading home but not really ready to go
#SouthGeorgia
A South Georgia sea sausage selection pack. Snoozing elephant seals on the seashore at Stromness, at the very end of the Shackleton crossing
#SouthGeorgia
#Antarctica
A brief but incredibly colourful sunset from a few nights ago turned everything to shades of crimson, silver and black around King Edward Point
#SouthGeorgia
Chasing the sunset on last night's ranger patrol around the Linn of Dee. A deliciously cold autumn evening to make you appreciate going indoors so much more.
#rangerlife
#Scotland
#Cairngorms
Today was a day mostly spent around the rivers with lots of bridges to cross. A wee wander around Crathie by the Dee, with a stop for coffee and cake, then upstream to Braemar + the Clunie, then further to the Lui, the Quoich + the Linn of Dee.
#CairngormsTogether
#Autumn
Ready for the next adventure. Very excited to head back to Antarctica as a guide on
@BarkEuropa
for a couple of voyages. I'll be out of contact for a few weeks, but there will be plenty of pictures to share when I return to Ushuaia.
#Antarctica
#PolarGuide
#BarkEuropa