Running 10-12 hours a day, it takes 25-30 days outbound and 10-14 returning. A good day loaded is 40-50 miles. The route is 900 miles of mostly flat with a 7000 foot climb up a glacier from basically sea level to the Polar Plateau . The climb requires 2 tractors for each load and shuttling the loads to the top.
Thank you Marc!
You're welcome. Can you imagine how boring that would be, driving across snow for a month and a half?
ReplyDeleteI actually can imagine it, I've had a worse, more boring job, driving a submarine. All instruments, no view. Nothing to look at, months at sea.
DeleteYeah, that would be worse.
DeleteInteresting! Antartica,where the hole in the ozone was "discovered". And all these scientists guzzling up hydrocarbons at that level down there,what,20yrs. later! Time for other fairy tales.
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