South Pole Traverse 1 (SPot1) is on it’s way back from South Pole Station to McMurdo. Traverse 2 (SPoT2) is about 400 miles out from Pole and it seems the tracks on the Caterpillar Challenger tractors are delaminating.
A bit of a concern and replacement tracks will need to be flown out to be replaced in the field.
Where else would you get to play with big boys toys like this.
This is a cool video check it out in HD…
Each Austral summer we send several traverses on their 1000 mile journey carting over 100,000 gallons of fuel in bladders from the US Antarctic Programs McMurdo Station on Ross Island to our South Pole Station. Continue reading “South Pole Traverse (SPoT1)”