30 December 2003 Click image for full size!
Here's another group of tourists that just arrived for the day. I was told that these people climbed some mountain somewhere and then flew from there to the 89th latitude and skied over to the pole, about 60 miles. It took them a week to get here with the pace they were going and I heard that they would only ski 50 minutes at a time before taking a break. I guess if you're doing the tourist thing, you don't get the luxury of having a month to acclimate to the altitude and the cold so you have to take it a bit slower. A plane is supposed to pick them up and take them back to Patriot Hills, which apparently is where a lot of the tourists stage from. It's not a permanent base over there, but a summertime camp that operates more for the NGOs (non-government organizations) that are scattered around the continent.