Overview of Summit Station from my drone (I'm standing on the skiway, not a controlled runway obviously):
The plane we came in on (propellers still running, they dare not turn it off at this altitude/temperature):
A plane caught during landing (these are LC-130's, run by the 109th Air National Guard out of Scotia, NY. In late August they begin the journey south to Antarctica):
Pondering the vastness of the Ice Sheet from a walk along the skiway:
I don't know how to verify this claim, but this is supposedly the Tucker used in the filming of the terrible movie "White Out." This is about 10 km north of station while I was testing the coverage of the cell phone network I installed. Ironically given the shirt I was wearing, this (~10 km north of Summit Station) is the farthest I've ever been from the South Pole. My attempt to go to both the South Pole and Greenland in the same year was foiled by COVID, so ~18 months separates -90 S and ~72.65 N.
A picture of the main building, the Big House, which functions as galley, office and lounge, during condition 1 (30-40 kt winds, terribe visibility):
More to come.