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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA The Antarctica challenge Mark Terry British Antarctic Survey for my first day of shooting. According to my map, it looked like a relatively short walk and with nary a car in sight, I thought it best not to wait for a cab and start my journey on foot. Surely, one would come my way eventually should I decide I was running late or getting lost. Well, those two things did indeed happen and still, no cars in sight. The weather had become cold and the light drizzle had turned into a windy downpour of freezing rain. The cliché of British weather came to mind as I tried to find my way with shards of flying ice blinding my every glance. Perhaps a prelude of things to come in Antarctica! After a two-hour ordeal, I found the remote compound of the BAS. It looked like the Pentagon dropped in the middle of the Baskerville moors. My cameraman was in the lobby waiting for me. We were soon greeted by Athena who brought us to our first lab for an interview with Dr. Peter Convey. He introduced us to Antarctica’s largest land animal, a common flea. This creature, unlike penguins, is native to the continent. He also showed us some startling footage of a “greening” Antarctica – vast land masses with no snow and ice and with a new green vegetation growing over the now exposed rocky terrain. He also explained that penguin populations were notably declining due to a complicated chain of events starting with warmer temperatures and ending with a diminished food supply. I was fast building a shot list for my own expedition. Our next interview with Dr. John King took place in another lab, this one with more computer monitors than test tubes. Dr. King is a specialist in climate variability and change in the high latitudes of the Antarctic Peninsula. He too, offered some fascinating research on how wind and weather patterns were changing, bringing more open water to the frozen shores contributing to the melting of the land ice there. My own research revealed only that warming temperatures were causing the catastrophic ice melt in Antarctica. This was the first of many other dynamic impacts the warmer climate was to have on Antarctica, I would soon learn. A natural segue from Dr. King’s 47
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Page 10 and 11: A call to adventure Megan Hine
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Page 16 and 17: Guest Editorial Fearghal O'Nuallain
Page 24 and 25: John Rae: Arctic Explorer Ken McGoo
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Page 34 and 35: The Antarctica challenge Mark Terry
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Page 60 and 61: Book review: Heart of the Himalaya
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Page 64 and 65: The Climb for Valor Tom Bochnowski
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