Beth took a number of photos of the journey from Punta Arenas to Patriot Hills and of them practicing just before they set off.  One of the ALE guys was then able to take the camera flash card back to Chile and post it to the UK. 

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The Photos below are mainly those sent by Correne using her Contact 4.0 Expedition Software provided by Human Edge Technologies.  The software allows digital photos to be added to a PDA compressed and then sent live via a satellite phone back to the HumanEdgeTech explorers web system together with text updates.  The photos are therefore courtesy of both the Human Edge Technologies publishing system and Correne.  The pictures can aslo be viewed on Correne's website.

Correne heading out from Thiels

The RAF team at Thiels

Denise, Correne and Beth having got up at 1am to see the RAF team.

Mike Thornewill, Correne and Fiona Thornewill

Camped at Thiels

Denise checking for level ground to pitch the tent on.

Beth having fallen.

This is what sastruggi looks like!

Correne retrieving her sled.

Christmas Party at Thiels

Headed for Thiels Mountains and the Re-supply

Thiels Mountains on the horizon.

Correne's homemade 'Batwoman' Mask!

Beth with face tape.

Poor Visibility

Correne

Denise skiing.

The Camp

Team Photo (from left Denise, Beth, Correne)

Beth, Correne and Denise in front of the Twin Otter plane shortly after landing at Hercules Inlet at approximately 11am on 25th November '06.

Correne, Beth and Denise in front of the Russian Illuysion plane at Patriot Hills shortly after arriving on 24/11/2006 at 2am Chile time.

Posted 21/11/06

Beth and Correne at the Airport The team went to the airport ready to go wearing their expedition clothes. Unfortunately the weather deteriorated and the flight was called off.	Good Luck Toe The locals consider it good luck to touch the toe of this statue.	Others waiting for the plane All the Antartic skiers, climbers scientists etc waiting to go.

Posted 19/11/06

The big supermarket shop Beth, Denise and Correne headed out to a local hypermarket to buy provisions for the expedition	Packing the supplies Back at the expedition headquarters everything had to be divided up into daily portions and the packaging removed - a full days work	Food for leg 1 Food was then packaged into colour coded bags ready for the flight. This is the food for the first leg of the journey all ready to go.