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I'm recording this from Sir Edmund Hillary's hut at Scott Base in Antarctica. This experience has been eye-opening, and I want to share what it's taught me about life, leadership, and our planet.In this episode, I cover:The Power of Perspective – What Antarctica reveals about human resilience and vulnerability.Leading in Isolation – How I helped Antarctica NZ's winter team build a strong team culture.Protecting Our Planet – What the melting Ross Ice Shelf means for all of us.Pushing Past Fear – Why stepping out of your comfort zone leads to growth.The Importance of Connection – How humor and self-awareness drive high-performing teams.This experience has reminded me to pause, reflect, and take action—not just in leadership, but in how we live every day.Take a moment today to think about your purpose. What impact—big or small—do you want to have?If this episode resonates, share it with someone who needs to hear it. And as always, lead your life on purpose.This episode was sponsored by NZ Mortgages. You can find them at nzmortgages.co.nz.Get the Growth Weekly Newsletter sent straight to your inbox and join 1000's of other high-performers on the road to self-mastery  - https://www.jjlaughlin.com/newsletterOn my channel I aim to bring you world-class guests and create epic videos to help you level up your leadership and personal mastery.If you could take the time to subscribe, that would help my channel grow and it would mean you wouldn't miss an episode. Subscribe here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6GETJbxpgulYcYc6QAKLHA?sub_confirmation=1I release a solocast every Wednesday, and an interview with a world class guest every Thursday.Send me a personal text messageSupport the show

Amundsen and his team survive the winter in Antarctica, then set out across the Ross Ice Shelf (aka the Great Ice Barrier), over the Transantarctic Mountains, and on to the South Pole. Will they be able to best Robert Falcon Scott and the Terra Nova team? This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/EXPLORERSPOD and get on your way to being your best self. Sponsor link: US.Amazfit.com/EXPLORERS | Promo Code: EXPLORERS The Explorers Podcast is part of the Airwave Media Network: www.airwavemedia.com Interested in advertising on the Explorers Podcast? Email us at advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoSusan Donnelly, General Manager of Mount Sunapee (and former General Manager of Crotched Mountain)Recorded onNovember 4, 2024About CrotchedClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Vail Resorts, which also owns:Located in: Francetown, New HampshireYear founded: 1963 (as Crotched East); 1969 (as Onset, then Onset Bobcat, then Crotched West, now present-day Crotched); entire complex closed in 1990; West re-opened by Peak Resorts in 2003 as Crotched MountainPass affiliations:* Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass, Northeast Value Epic Pass: unlimited access* Northeast Midweek Epic Pass: midweek access, including holidaysClosest neighboring public ski areas: Pats Peak (:34), Granite Gorge (:39), Arrowhead (:41), McIntyre (:50), Mount Sunapee (:51)Base elevation: 1,050 feetSummit elevation: 2,066 feetVertical drop: 1,016Skiable Acres: 100Average annual snowfall: 65 inchesTrail count: 25 (28% beginner, 40% intermediate, 32% advanced)Lift count: 5 (1 high-speed quad, 1 fixed-grip quad, 1 triple, 1 double, 1 surface lift – view Lift Blog's inventory of Crotched's lift fleet)History: Read New England Ski History's overview of Crotched MountainAbout Mount SunapeeClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: The State of New Hampshire; operated by Vail Resorts, which also operates resorts detailed in the chart above.Located in: Newbury, New HampshireYear founded: 1948Pass affiliations:* Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass, Northeast Value Epic Pass: unlimited access* Northeast Midweek Epic Pass: midweek access, including holidaysClosest neighboring public ski areas: Pats Peak (:28), Whaleback (:29), Arrowhead (:29), Ragged (:38), Veterans Memorial (:42), Ascutney (:45), Crotched (:48), Quechee (:50), Granite Gorge (:51), McIntyre (:53)Base elevation: 1,233 feetSummit elevation: 2,743 feetVertical drop: 1,510 feetSkiable Acres: 233 acresAverage annual snowfall: 130 inchesTrail count: 67 (29% beginner, 47% intermediate, 24% advanced)Lift count: 8 (2 high-speed quads, 1 fixed-grip quad, 2 triples, 3 conveyors – view Lift Blog's inventory of Mount Sunapee's lift fleet.)History: Read New England Ski History's overview of Mount SunapeeWhy I interviewed herIt's hard to be small in New England and it's hard to be south in New England. There are 35 New England ski areas with vertical drops greater than 1,100 feet, and Crotched is not one of them. There are 44 New England ski areas that average more than 100 inches of snow per winter, and Crotched is not one of those either. Crotched does have a thousand vertical feet and a high-speed lift and a new baselodge and a snowmaking control room worthy of a nuclear submarine. Which is a pretty good starter kit for a successful ski area. But it's not enough in New England.To succeed as a ski area in New England, you need a Thing. The most common Things are to be really really nice or really really gritty. Stratton or Mad River. Okemo or Magic. Sunday River or Black Mountain of Maine. The pitch is either “you'll think you're at Deer Valley” or “you'll descend the hill on ice skates and you'll like it.” But Crotched's built-along-a-state-highway normalness precludes arrogance, and its mellow terrain lacks the attitude for even modest braggadocio. It's not a small ski area, but it's not big enough to be a mid-sized one, either. The terrain is fine, but it's not the kind of place you need to ski on purpose, or more than once. It's a fine local, but not much else, making Crotched precisely the kind of mountain that you would have expected to be smothered by the numerous larger and better ski areas around it before it could live to see the internet. And that's exactly what happened. Crotched, lacking a clear Thing, went bust in 1990.The ski area, undersized and average, should have melted back into the forest by now. But in 2002, then-budding Peak Resorts crept out of its weird Lower Midwest manmade snowhole on a reverse Lewis & Clark Expedition to explore the strange and murky East. And as they hacked away the brambles around Crotched's boarded-up baselodge, they saw not a big pile of mediocrity, but a portal into the gold-plated New England market. And they said “this could work if we can just find a Thing.” And that Thing was night-skiing with attitude, built on top of $10 million in renovations that included a built-from-scratch snowmaking system.The air above the American mountains is filled with such wild notions. “We're going to save Mt. Goatpath. It's going to be bigger than Vail and deeper than Alta and higher than Telluride.” And everyone around them is saying, “You know this is, like, f*****g Connecticut, right?” But if practical concerns killed all bad ideas, then no one would keep reptiles as pets. Everyone else is happy with cats or dogs, sentient mammals of kindred disposition with humans, but this idiot needs a 12-foot-long boa constrictor that he keeps in a 6x3 fishtank. It helps him get chicks or something. It's his thing. And damned if it doesn't work.What we talked aboutTransitioning from smaller, Vail-owned Crotched to larger, state-owned but Vail-operated Sunapee; “weather-proofing” Sunapee; Crotched and Sunapee – so close but so different; reflecting on the Okemo days under Triple Peaks ownership; longtime Okemo head Bruce Schmidt; reacting to Vail's 2018 purchase of Triple Peaks; living through change; the upside of acquisitions; integrating Peak Resorts; skiing's boys' club; Vail Resorts' culture of women's advancement; why Covid uniquely challenged Crotched among Vail's New England properties; reviving Midnight Madness; Crotched's historic downsizing; whether the lost half of Crotched could ever be re-developed; why Crotched 2.0 is more durable than the version that shut down in 1990; Crotched's baller snowmaking system; southern New Hampshire's wild weather; thoughts on future Crotched infrastructure; and considering a beginner trail from Crotched's summit.Why now was a good time for this interviewAs we swing toward the middle of the 2020s, it's pretty lame to continue complaining about operational malfunctions in the so-called Covid season of 2020-21, but I'm going to do it anyway.Some ski areas did a good job operating that season. For example, Pats Peak. Pats Peak was open seven days per week that winter. Pats Peak offered night skiing on all the days it usually offers night skiing. Pats Peak made the Ross Ice Shelf jealous with its snowmaking firepower. Pats Peak acted like a snosportskiing operation that had operated a snosportskiing operation in previous winters. Pats Peak did a good job.Other ski areas did a bad job operating that season. For example, Crotched. Crotched was open whenever it decided to be open, which was not very often. Crotched, one of the great night-skiing centers in New England, offered almost no night skiing. Crotched's snowmaking looked like what happens when you accidentally keep the garden hose running during an overnight freeze. Crotched did a bad job.This is a useful comparison, because these two ski areas sit just 21 miles and 30 minutes apart. They are dealing with the same crappy weather and the same low-altitude draw. They are both obscured by the shadows of far larger ski areas scraping the skies just to the north. They are both small and unserious places, where the skiing is somewhat beside the point. Kids go there to pole-click one another's skis off of moving chairlifts. College kids go there to alternate two laps with two rounds at the bar. Adults go there to shoo the kids onto the chairlifts and burn down happy hour. No one shows up in either parking lot expecting Jackson Hole.But Crotched Mountain is owned by Vail Resorts. Pats Peak is owned by the same family of good-old boys who built the original baselodge from logs sawed straight off the mountain in 1962. Vail Resorts has the resources to send a container full of sawdust to the moon just to see what happens when it's opened. Most of Pats Peaks' chairlifts came used from other ski areas. These two are not drawing from the same oil tap.And yet, one of them delivered a good product during Covid, and the other did not. And the ones who did are not the ones that their respective pools of resources would suggest. And so the people who skied Pats Peak that year were like “Yeah that was pretty good considering everything else kind of sucks right now.” And the people who skied Crotched that season were like “Well that sucked even worse than everything else does right now, and that's saying something.”And that's the mess that Donnelly inherited when she took the GM job at Crotched in 2021. And it took a while, but she fixed it. And that's harder than it should be when your parent company can deploy sawdust rockets on a whim.What I got wrong* I said that Colorado has 35 active ski areas. The correct number is 34, or 33 if we exclude Hesperus, which did not operate last winter, and is not scheduled to reactivate anytime soon.* I said that Bruce Schmidt was the “president and general manager” of Okemo. His title is “Vice President and General Manager.” Sorry about that, Bruce.* I said that Okemo's season pass was “closing in on $2,000” when Vail came along. According to New England Ski History, Okemo's top season pass price hit $1,375 for the 2017-18 ski season, the last before Vail purchased the resort. This appears to be a big cut from the 2016-17 season, when the top price was $1,619. My best guess is that Okemo dropped their pass prices after Vail purchased Stowe, lowering that mountain's pass price from $2,313 for the 2016-17 ski season to just $899 (an Epic Pass) the next.* I said that 80 percent-plus of my podcasts featured interviews with men. I examined the inventory, and found that of the 210 podcasts I've published (192 Storm Skiing Podcasts, 12 Covid pods, 6 Live pods), only 33, or 15.7 percent, included a female guest. Only 23 of those (11 percent), featured a woman as the only guest. And three of those podcasts were with one person: former NSAA CEO Kelly Pawlak. So either my representation sucks, or the ski industry's representation sucks, but probably it's both.Why you should ski CrotchedUpper New England doesn't have a lot of night skiing, and the night skiing it does have is mostly underwhelming. Most of the large resorts – Killington, Sugarbush, Smuggs, Stowe, Sugarloaf, Waterville, Cannon, Stratton, Mount Snow, Okemo, Attitash, Wildcat, etc. – have no night skiing at all. A few of the big names – Bretton Woods, Sunday River, Cranmore – provide a nominal after-dark offering, a lift and a handful of trails. The bulk of the night skiing in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine involves surface lifts at community-run bumps with the vertical drop of a Slip N' Slide.But a few exceptions tower into the frosty darkness: Pleasant Mountain, Maine; Pats Peak, New Hampshire; and Bolton Valley, Vermont all deliver big vertical drops, multiple chairlifts, and a spiderweb of trails for night skiers. Boyne-owned Pleasant, with 1,300 vertical feet served by a high-speed quad, is the most extensive of these, but the second-most expansive night-skiing operation in New England lives at Crotched.Parked less than an hour from New Hampshire's four largest cities – Manchester, Nashua, Concord, and Derry – Crotched is the rare northern New England ski area that can sustain an after-hours business (New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont are ranked numbers 41, 42, and 49 among U.S. states by population, respectively, with a three-state total of just 3.5 million residents). With four chairlifts spinning, every trail lit, Park Brahs on patrol, first-timers lined up at the rental shop, Bomber Bro straightlining Pluto's Plunge in his unzipped Celtics jacket, the parking lots jammed, and the scritch-scratch of edges on ice shuddering across the night, it's an amazing scene, a lantern of New England Yeah Dawg zest floating in the winter night.No, Crotched night skiing isn't what it used to be, when Peak Resorts kept the joint bumping until 3 a.m. And the real jammer, Midnight Madness, hits just a half dozen days per winter. But it's still a uniquely New England scene, a skiing spectacle that can double as a night-cap after a day shredding Cannon or Waterville or Mount Snow.Podcast NotesOn my recent Sunapee podI tend to schedule these interviews several months in advance, and sometimes things change. One of the things that changed between when I scheduled this conversation and when we recorded it was Donnelly's job. She moved from Crotched, which I had never spotlighted on the podcast, to Sunapee, which I just featured a few months ago. Which means, Sunapee Nation, that we don't really talk much about Mount Sunapee on this podcast that has Mount Sunapee in the headline. But pretty much everything I talked about in June with former Sunapee GM Peter Disch (who's now VP of Mountain Ops at Vail's Heavenly), is still relevant:On historic CrotchedCrotched was once a much larger resort forged from two onetime independent side-by-side ski areas. The whole history of it is a bit labyrinthian and involves bad decisions, low snow years, and unpaid taxes (read the full tale at New England Ski History), but the upshot was this interconnected animal, shown here at its 1988-ish peak:The whole Crotched complex dropped dead around 1990, and would have likely stayed that way forever had Missouri-based Peak Resorts not gotten the insane idea to dig a lost New England ski area up from the graveyard. Somewhat improbably, they succeeded, and the contemporary Crotched (minus the summit quad, which came later), opened in 2003. The current ski area sits on what was formerly known as “Crotched West,” and before that “Bobcat,” and before that (or perhaps at the same time), “Onset.” Trails on the original Crotched Mountain, at Crotched East (left on the trailmap above), are still faintly visible from above (on the right below, between the “Crotched Mountain” and “St. John Enterprise” dots):On Triple Peaks and OkemoTriple Peaks was the umbrella company that owned Okemo, Vermont; Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire; and Crested Butte, Colorado. The owners, the Mueller family, sold the whole outfit to Vail Resorts in 2018. Longtime Okemo GM Bruce Schmidt laid out the whole history on the podcast earlier this year:On Crotched's lift fleetPeak got creative building Crotched's lift fleet. The West double, a Hall installed by Jesus himself in 400 B.C., had sat in the woods through Crotched's entire 13-year closure and was somehow reactivated for the revival. The Rover triple and the Valley and Summit quads came from a short-lived 1,000-vertical-foot Virginia ski area called Cherokee.What really nailed Crotched back to the floor, however, was the 2012 acquisition of a used high-speed quad from bankrupt Ascutney, Vermont.Peak flagrantly dubbed this lift the “Crotched Rocket,” a name that Vail seems to have backed away from (the lift is simply “Rocket” on current trailmaps).Fortunately, Ascutney lived on as a surface-lifts-only community bump even after its beheading. You can still skin and ski the top trails if you're one of those people who likes to make skiing harder than it needs to be:On Peak ResortsPeak Resorts started in, of all places, Missouri. The company slowly acquired small-but-busy suburban ski areas, and was on its way to Baller status when Vail purchased the whole operation in 2019. Here's a loose acquisition timeline:The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 81/100 in 2024, and number 581 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

This episode explores new research, which has observed warm ocean water moving beneath the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica, where it contributes to ice melting. --- Read this episode's science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read 'Ice' by Gail Mazur here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com   X: @samillingworth 

A science team is tractor-sledding heavy equipment towards the innermost point of the Ross ice shelf to bring back critical information for the world's coastal communities. Climate Change Correspondent Eloise Gibson reports.

Dr Dan Price is a glaciologist with research work focussing on Antarctic sea ice thickness with satellite and airborne sensors. He has been to Antarctica 8 times for both scientific research and program and logistical support. He developed crevasse avoidance techniques for heavy vehicle traverses across the world's largest ice shelf- the Ross Ice Shelf which is roughly the size of France. This involved finding a new 1,000km long route across the West Antarctica using novel satellite techniques. Dan took this theoretical investigation and was able to put it in to practise in Antarctica with his participation in the initial traverse. Dan has now driven across the Ross Ice Shelf 6 times. In 2015 he led a campaign called Pole to Paris to draw attention to the COP21 climate conference. He cycled a push bike from New Zealand to France over an 8 month period passing though more than 18 countries. During this expedition he gave presentations about the threat of climate change to people who will most likely be affected by sea level rise. He is currently the Chief Scientist for Christchurch based aerospace company Kea Aerospace, who are developing high altitude solar powered aircraft for earth observation. These initiatives will enhance our ability to respond to natural disasters by reducing the time it takes to assess impacts and damage from these events. Dan remains involved in sea ice research at Gateway Antarctica at the University of Canterbury and plans to launch a project to undertake the largest sea ice study ever conducted in Antarctica by flying a sea ice measuring instrument 5,000km from New Zealand's Scott Base to Australia's Casey Station. Dan has a bachelor of science from Cardiff University in Marine Sciences and a doctorate (PhD) in sea ice remote sensing from the University of Canterbury. He's an Edmund Hillary Fellow and is actively involved in not for profit organisations.

rWotD Episode 2481: Southern Cross Expedition Welcome to random Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a random Wikipedia page every day.The random article for Sunday, 18 February 2024 is Southern Cross Expedition.The Southern Cross Expedition, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, was the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and the forerunner of the more celebrated journeys of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. The brainchild of the Anglo-Norwegian explorer Carsten Borchgrevink, it was the first expedition to over-winter on the Antarctic mainland, the first to visit the Great Ice Barrier—later known as the Ross Ice Shelf—since Sir James Clark Ross's groundbreaking expedition of 1839 to 1843, and the first to effect a landing on the Barrier's surface. It also pioneered the use of dogs and sledges in Antarctic travel.The expedition was privately financed by the British magazine publisher Sir George Newnes. Borchgrevink's party sailed in the Southern Cross, and spent the southern winter of 1899 at Cape Adare, the northwest extremity of the Ross Sea coastline. Here they carried out an extensive programme of scientific observations, although opportunities for inland exploration were restricted by the mountainous and glaciated terrain surrounding the base. In January 1900, the party left Cape Adare in Southern Cross to explore the Ross Sea, following the route taken by Ross 60 years earlier. They reached the Great Ice Barrier, where a team of three made the first sledge journey on the Barrier surface, during which a new Farthest South record latitude was established at 78° 50′S.On its return to Britain the expedition was coolly received by London's geographical establishment exemplified by the Royal Geographical Society, which resented the pre-emption of the pioneering Antarctic role they envisaged for the Discovery Expedition. There were also questions about Borchgrevink's leadership qualities, and criticism of the limited extent of scientific results. Thus, despite the number of significant "firsts", Borchgrevink was never accorded the heroic status of Scott or Shackleton, and his expedition was soon forgotten in the dramas which surrounded these and other Heroic Age explorers. However, Roald Amundsen, conqueror of the South Pole in 1911, acknowledged that Borchgrevink's expedition had removed the greatest obstacles to Antarctic travel, and had opened the way for all the expeditions that followed.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:07 UTC on Sunday, 18 February 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Southern Cross Expedition on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm Brian Standard.

An ambitious ice coring expedition to the Ross Ice Shelf aims to figure out the possible futures of West Antarctica's ice. Veronika Meduna joins the team on the ice.

Scientists involved in an ambitious attempt to drill deep into the rock below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet say their efforts got "tantalising close", and they will try again in November. The international team of experts melted a hole through the 580-metre-thick Ross Ice Shelf in a bid to retrieve ancient sediment from the last time Earth was at hot as it will become in the next few decades. They say this will reveal clues about how the ice sheet behaved then, and how quickly it might disintegrate now. But they fell just short of their goal, drilling for sediment samples 200 metres below the ocean floor. Richard Levy of GNS Science and Victoria University led the team on the ice. Levy spoke to Corin Dann.

It's nearly Christmas, even in Antarctica! Jenn Davis is "camp mum" to researchers and engineers currently working at Kamb Ice Stream, more than a thousand kilometres from Scott Base. They're there to drill for sediment cores beneath the Ross Ice Shelf to help determine how sensitive it has been to past warming. Davis spoke to Charlotte Cook.

Visiting the Ross Ice Shelf across several seasons, Stephanie Kryzwonos interrogates the heroic narratives of male exploration and conquest—written almost entirely by white men—that gender the land through feminine tropes. Might these characterizations, borne of a colonizing hunger to conquer and subdue, say more about the culture they come from than about the land they describe? What would happen, Stephanie asks, if we moved beyond fantasies and savior complexes, and instead approached Antarctica as a living place with agency? Read this story. Explore more stories from Shifting Landscapes, our fourth print volume. Sign up for our newsletter to hear more stories as they are released each week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Following Shackleton's death in 1922 which marked the end of the Heroic Age in Antarctic history, no major expedition occurred to Antarctica until 1928 when a naval aviator, Richard Byrd, ventured south with ambitions to be the first person to fly over the south pole. In this podcast, I provide the history of Byrd's expedition and his research station Little America on the Ross Ice Shelf. In addition, I discuss the territorial claims that were being made for parts of the Antarctic continent by that time and the events leading up to the International Geophysical Year of 1957-1958 when Antarctica became the focus of research with 40 stations established there by 12 nations. The IGY became a turning point in Antarctic history leading to the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959.

Released Friday, January 20, 2023 Season 3; Episode #020 On Christmas Eve, 2023, WeatherJazz® reached a marker that few (if any) podcasts can boast: being listened to in Antarctica! We have a special treat for everyone today: I invited the gentleman who actually listened to WeatherJazz® from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica on the program. He's back in the USA from conducting experiments for NASA and confirms that he did listen to WeatherJazz® and shares some of the research he did. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/andrebernier/support

Antarctica is home of the world's biggest ice cube. The Ross Ice Shelf is about the size of France! It's also a difficult place to pee. All trash is transported off the continent, including human waste, and if you go on a hike, you have to take a pee bottle with you. This week we learn about Antarctica, which means, literally, "Opposite the Bear." Check out Clark's classes on Outschool https://bit.ly/clarkonoutschool or email Clark at aroundtheworldwithmrclark@gmail.com

How do you drill through 600m of thick Antarctic ice? Using hot water, of course. In this episode from the 2020 series Voices from Antarctica, Alison Ballance joins researchers hoping to solve the puzzle of why a giant river of ice has stalled.

The public has voted. New Zealand's home in Antarctica will be painted kakariki green. Irwyn Smith was down there in the sixties as Post Master and radio operator, and helped paint the original Scott Base green for the first time in 1965. He has a rock cape on the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf named after him. Irwyn is with us now to talk early days of Scott Base.

An unexpected "swarm" of marine life has been found in a newly explored Antarctic river deep beneath the ice. A team of scientists from Victoria University, NIWA, and GNS made the discovery while studying a suspected under-ice estuary, hundreds of kilometres from the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. When they drilled down into the river, their camera was inundated by dozens of small amphipods - a type of animal from the same family that includes lobsters, crabs, and mites. Kathryn speaks with Professor Craig Stevens, NIWA Physical Oceanographer who was part of the team.

A newly discovered "microbial jungle" deep under the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, hundreds of kilometres from the open sea, that thrives without light, has been discovered by Kathryn's guest, Sergio Morales, Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Otago.

In Part ONE of Lori's interview with Sean McBride, Sean talks about overcoming self-doubts and depression, rescuing children and women from sex trafficking, becoming a Buddhist Monk, and learning to fly. Sean is an evolutionary anthropologist with a special interest in the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and its impact on contemporary human behaviour. He holds a 1st class honours degree in Anthropology and has undertaken field research with Aboriginal people in Australia, the Sami of Lapland, the Bedouin of Jordan and the Lahu of Thailand. He is a recognised expert in Aboriginal ethno-ecology and his past interests involved the teaching of Aboriginal skills for 22 years through his own survival school in Australia, and internationally for the general public, outdoor guides, foreign military and Australian Special Forces. He is a former Green Beret commando and Australian Army officer. In 2001 Sean was asked to be the survival consultant for Channel Nine’s Australian Survivor. He was also the Games and Challenges designer for the show. In 2004 he went to Thailand to rescue children from prostitution and from there set up The Grey Man organization to continue that work serving as its president till 2012. His organization rescued over 170 women and children from trafficking and prevented the trafficking of an estimated 600 more. He continues to work behind the scenes in this field. He stepped down as president of The Grey man in 2012 and in 2013 was ordained as a Zen Buddhist monk. His long-term interest in Antarctica was fulfilled in 2018 when he spent eight days camped on the Ross Ice Shelf and came away from that experience with a desire to protect Antarctica. He runs the Captain Antarctica Facebook page, Captain Antarctica Tribe Facebook group and the Captain Antarctica website, where he posts regular updates about the history, science and wildlife of Antarctica. His long-term plan is to fly an electric aircraft from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole to demonstrate the benefits of renewables and to highlight what can be done to protect Antarctica. To this end, during the Covid lockdown, he learnt to fly a plane and bought a Wittman W8 Tailwind aircraft which will eventually be converted to electric. Based in Brisbane he is presently the Senior State Anthropologist for the Queensland Government and in his spare time studies acting and flies in his plane. Website: www.captainantarctica.com.au Facebook page: www.facebook.com/captainantarctica Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/captainantarcticatribe Song “Beautiful Too” Written and Sung By: Teghan Devon

Zabieram was dziś na początek XX wieku. To czas, gdy upartej ludzkości do okrycia nie pozostało już nic, poza biegunami. I to właśnie na biegun południowy wspólnie dziś wyruszamy. Zabierzcie najcieplejszy ubiór, jaki tylko macie. Przygotujcie się na lodowate temperatury, wiatr zwalający z nóg, półroczną noc polarną i śmierć czyhającą na każdym nieostrożnym kroku. Nie obawiajcie się jednak – nie wyruszamy sami. Naszym przewodnikiem i kapitanem wyprawy będzie sam Roald Amundsen!   Mapa nr 1: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Gordon_Home%27s_Map_of_Amundsen%27s_South_Pole_Expedition.jpg   Mapa nr 2: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Antarctic_expedition_map_%28Amundsen_-_Scott%29-en-crop.png   Dziękuję moim Patronom:  Tomasz Woźniak, Monika Flanagan, Szymon Piltz, Tom Romanowski, Maciej Neumann, Zbigniew Bociąga, Dominik Kochowicz, Gabriela  Prokopowicz , Adam Kaczmarek ,Przemysław Korolczuk, Marcin Nowacki, Magdalena Ślachetka, Dawid Ruman, Krzysiek Lada, Sebastian Szary, Michał Misiarek, Łukasz Kornacki, Marcin Barański, Ola Gradowska ,Maciej Piela, Elzbieta Multan-Putur, Jacek Białecki, Kamil Witek, Jarek Slizewski, Mateusz Księżopolski, Adam Jot, Alicja Wd ,Łukasz Prażewski, Klejnot Nilu, Daniel Królak, Łukasz Ostrowski, Radosław, Wojciech  Ziętek , Paweł Piotrowicz ,Paweł Kamiński, Ewa Wardach, Łukasz De, LL LL, Arkadiusz Sałek, Michał Kozłowski, Jehoszafat Zimnowoda, Marek Domaradzki, Maciek Walusiak, Marta Bernard, Sabina Rokita, Anna Mazurek, Albert Zwierzyński, Filip Ślusarski, Łukasz Wroński, Łukasz Kolasa, Grzegorz Skowron, Tomasz Sowiński, Jakub Syrek, svsori蠍, Maciej Golański, Wojciech Krauze, Franciszek Wójcik, Andrzej Bolewski, Rafal Stankiewicz, Łukasz Otremba, kamila marynicz, Grzegorz B-ki, Marian Zawodny, Piotr Zięba, Łukasz Działo, Adam Freus, Vielebny, Rafał Labryga, Magda Dziubak, Karol Durasiewicz, Paweł Zieja, Izabela Jędrzejczak, Michał Jasiewicz, Oliwia , Maksymilian Szczepaniak, Krzysztof Góźdź, Alicja Łaszcz, Daniel Podlejski, Piotr Panek, Adam Pietrysiak, Mateusz Banaszek, Rafal Jeziorek, kacper kandefer, Szymon Swoboda, tirey93, Jan Kowalski, Jerzy Bogumił, Kamil Rowiński, Przemek Pacek, bartek kooasdasd, Aleksandra Mielewczyk-Gryń, Konrad Sawras, Jacek Woźniak, Wiktor Gorgoń, Kamil Sołoducha, Aleksander Kula, Grzegorz J, Witold Szymaniak, Rafał Bogumił, Małgorzata Grudzińska, Grzegorz Kawczyński, Magdalena Migas, Artur Ogonowski, M M, Dawid Stoch, Paweł Hołubowicz ,Leszek Sztokinier, Kasia Niemczyk, Jakub M, Dominik Kuna, Bartek Kozlowski, arek.zysk@onet.eu, Adam Kozłowski, Krzysztof Borowiec ,Paweł Mazurkiewicz, Wojciech Krupa, jacek kaleta, P Re, Mateusz Rutkowski, Jakub Żurowski, Mariusz Wolski, Katarzyna Łozak, Mariusz Bąk, Michał Moczulski, Ania Jędrowiak, AgataM ,Aleksander Sawiuk, Paweł Włuka, Marcin Dalibor, Karol  Biegun   Oraz Patronom Anonimowym: Marta i Dominik, Sabina, Mateusz, Aneta, Kamil, Piotr Grzegorz, Alina, Joanna, Artur, Jakub, Krzysztof, Monika, Wojciech, Piotr, Mateusz, Nina, Justyna, Mariusz, Krzysztof, Zuzanna   Dajecie mi wysokooktanowe paliwo do działania!   Wesprzyj Podcast Historyczny: https://patronite.pl/podcasthistoryczny/description Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/podcasthistoryczny Muzyka:muzyka: Open Music Revolution (www.openmusicrevolution.com) AshamaluevMusic: https://www.youtube.com/c/ashamaluevmusic Whitesand: https://whitesand.bandcamp.com, https://open.spotify.com/artist/3GXunV3wsCpSdKp0L5tcNH     Zrodla: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen%27s_South_Pole_expedition https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roald-Amundsen https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen-Scott https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen https://www.twojapogoda.pl/wiadomosc/2017-03-08/arktyka-antarktyda-i-antarktyka-czym-sie-od-siebie-roznia_1556598/ https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biegun_północny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biegun_południowy https://hbr.org/2011/12/the-leadership-lessons-of-the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridtjof_Nansen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nova_Expedition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falcon_Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ice_Shelf

If episode #5 is going to teach us anything, it's what Ross Worthington has “triple bagged and buried” in his back garden. But don't just stay for that tantalising snippet, because Ross, along with Kate “off-of-episode-4” Worthington, is a co-founder of RAW Adventures. That means there's much to be said about living below and working on Planet Earth's “busiest mountain” (prove me wrong), and the joy that comes from helping others discover the challenges and beauties of its slopes. Perhaps most fascinating of all is Ross' journey to this exciting point in life, which has seen him skive college for the love of motorbikes, work undercover as a police officer, and enjoy life-affirming experiences on peaks from Malaysia's Mt Kinabalu to Patagonia's Cerro San Lorenzo. 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Welcome (pub chat) 05:33 - The World's Busiest Mountain, sez Dan 07:30 - “The notoriously mountainous county of Kent” 15:43 - Motorbikes, pubs and planes  18:25 - Joining the police: “it's a genetic disorder for our family” 19:13 - The Wire, Poirot or The Bill? 21:40 - … ah, so it's a bit like The Bill 22:20 - … oh no, wait, it's definitely The Wire 24:40 - “My homeless person kit is still triple-bagged and buried in my back garden… and I don't even know where in the garden it is” 27:30 - Mountain escapes from a working life 30:30 - Mt Kinabalu's “… a sea of green… and satanic horns flying out of the canopy” 32:35 - Mountains take over. Kate enters the scene 35:25 - The C.H.A.O.S. Club 37:05 - Running RAW Adventures, 10 years in 39:40 - Nonny gets in on the action 41:47 - Balmoral, Loch Muick and bothies 44:05 - “Snowdon's a really achievable goal for a lot of people, but that doesn't detract from the fact that it's a substantial UK mountain” 46:00 - “You can absolutely do this. Let's do this together” 49:10 - The Three Peaks Challenge the “right” way 53:55 - Snowdon, Everest and the Snowdonia Ambassador scheme 56:24 - Greatest Mountain Memory: honeymooning on snowy peaks in Chilean Patagonia 61:15 - All the time, money, freedom… where do you go? Antarctica (the “Ross Ice Shelf”, of course)

This is episode 21 and we’re taking a close look at the Mount Erebus disaster where an Air New Zealand McDonald Douglas DC-10 crashed on 28th November 1979, killing all 257 passengers and crew. At first it looked like straight pilot error - a CFIT or controlled Flight Into Terrain accident. But that would change as inquiries led to court cases. Of all the accidents I’ve described, this one has some of the most unfortunate set of circumstances and one of the most difficult recoveries afterwards of any aviation accident in history. Mount Erebus is on Ross Island part of the Antarctic archipelago and as you’ll hear, a juddge eventually called some evidence presented by Air New Zealand as "an orchestrated litany of lies" and which took 30 years before anyone at the airline formally apologised for that deceit. To say the court processes which took place were riven by bitterness and a distinct failure of leadership is pretty much an understatement. In fact, the phrase ‘an orchestrated litany of lies’ entered the Kiwi lexicon for some time and by the end of this episode I hope you’ll see why. The first aviation inquiry found pilot error caused the accident but then a Judge in a follow up investigation ruled the cause was incorrect data which had been knowingly left in a flight computer despite this error being reported. When a judge uses a phrase like conspiracy by senior management, then something has gone seriously wrong in terms of governance. But the legal wrangling didn’t end with the judge – there was an appeal then intervention by the privy council in London as New Zealand is a commonwealth state. So let’s go over the facts that are not in dispute. Flight 901 was marketed as a unique sightseeing experience where the passengers paid around $360 US Dollars each to be flown over Antarctica with an experienced guide who pointed out features and landmarks using the plane’s PA system. Some big names had been involved for example Sir Edmund Hillary had acted as a guide on flights and was actually supposed to be on board 901 that day in November 1979, but cancelled because he had other bookings. Unfortunately for long-time friend and climbing companion, Peter Mulgrew, he was available and stood in for the hero of Mount Everest. Mulgrew would never return from the Antarctic. The flight plan was complex compared to a normal commercial route. After the 5,360 miles from Auckland to the frozen south, the pilots would put the DC-10 into a series of low-flying sweeps out to the sea of McMurdo Sound or over the Ross Ice Shelf or both depending on time and the weather, then return home. There had been 13 previous flights which went off without serious incident and the whole concept had started two years earlier in 1977. It had become a great money-spinner for Air New Zealand, not to mention an excellent marketing tool. Come fly with Air New Zealand and see the world’s least visited Continent for a cool $359 New Zealand Dollars – which now set you back around $1300 US dollars. The flight left Auckland International Airport 8am on the morning of the 28th November and was due back at 7 that night. Usually flights would not be filled to capacity so that there would be space allowing passengers to walk about and get a better view of the incredible frozen continent from different places in the cabin. Cocktails would be served for the travellers as they clicked away on their cameras, many of whom would be puffing away on cigars and cigarettes. The aircraft that day was Air New Zealand’s McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 trijet and the plane was registered ZK-NZP. It had logged more than 20,700 flight hours prior to the crash.

Maria Leijerstam Edy is a British polar adventurer and World Record holder. In 2013 she became the first person in the world to cycle to the South Pole from the edge of the Antarctic continent. Maria started her expedition on the Ross Ice Shelf at the edge of the Antarctic continent, and cycled for 10 to 17 hours each day with no rest days. Without intent, Maria also set the World Record for the fastest human powered coast to pole traverse, completing the journey in 10 days, 14 hours and 56 minutes. Maria takes us on a journey through her extreme adventures, and the planning, training and creativity that went into breaking these incredible records.You can read Maria's detailed story in her book 'Cycling to the South Pole': www.marialeijerstam.com/book-documentaryFacebook: marialeijerstamInstagram: marialeijerstamTwitter: marialeijerstamThinking Off-Piste is brought to you by Mabey Ski, a Whistler-based adventure ski company creating bucket list ski trips across the globe. If you're looking to get off the beaten track and away from the crowds, head over to mabeyski.com to discover what lies beyond your lift pass.Hosted by: @beckylucyking

Researchers are using hot water to drill through the Ross ice shelf, to discover what has happened to Antarctic ice during previous periods of warm climates.

Researchers are using hot water to drill through the Ross ice shelf, to discover what has happened to Antarctic ice during previous periods of warm climates.

Do you keep making the same bad choices over and over again? You can change, and it all begins with a decision to change the way you think and act. It was New Zealand’s worst airline disaster. On November 28th, 1979, Air New Zealand Flight 901 flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. All 237 passengers and 20 crew died. I remember the first news reports coming in on TV in the evening, saying that the flight was overdue and that contact had been lost. We woke the next morning to a tragedy. Initially, it was concluded that it was pilot error, but a Royal Commission was set up to dig deeper. It found that two factors caused the accident. A correction made to the coordinates of the flight path the night before the disaster and a failure to inform the flight crew of the change. The result was that the aircraft was being guided by the computer in a direct path toward Mount Erebus. . Surely you would think the pilots would be able to see the mountain in front of them and steer to avoid it, but they were in whiteout conditions. Outside there was a layer of clouds that blended with the white of the snow-covered volcano, forming a sector whiteout – there was no contrast between the two to warn the pilots. The effect deceived everyone on the flight deck, making them believe that the white mountainside was the Ross Ice Shelf. Mount Erebus disaster Then there was the attempt to cover up the causes of the disaster. Justice Mahon, chair of the Royal Commission, accused Air New Zealand of presenting “an orchestrated litany of lies.” Your disaster I’ve known a few disasters in my life. I’ve also seen others have crashes. Many of them preventable. Then there are those crashes that are repeated time and time. You keep on doing the same thing, expecting different results, but wind up with the same disaster on your hands. You blame other people. Accusations fly. You hide the facts and twist the truth.  You orchestrate a ‘litany of lies’ believing them to be true. Deep down, though, it was you that was making the same decisions. It’s like you have an onboard computer with wrong coordinates loaded into it, flying you towards an inevitable disaster. Change the way you think and act. Then there was a time of momentous change in the history of the world, but for one man, it got extremely personal. He had his inbuilt computer brain telling him to always respond to a situation in a certain way. Even though he had been a follower of Jesus for three years, and had listened to everything Jesus had said, seen all the miracles, he still had the disaster. Peter denied knowing Jesus, and suddenly his world collapsed. Later he was forgiven and restored, but this was a pivotal moment in Peter’s life. It was a time of course correction. He had to change his thinking and acting. Later, that is his message to an equally misguided group of people. Change the way you think and act. Acts 2:38 3:19 Change is a course correction—an alteration in your thinking, which leads to new actions and behaviors. One of my favorite quotes is from the French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist Simeon Weil. Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction. Simone Weil, Waiting for God We all have turned our gaze in the wrong direction. All of us have some disastrous coordinates programmed into our neural pathways.  Often these are there from childhood. Early conclusions we made about life steers our ship. Every day we have experiences that subconsciously reinforce our belief that … The world is a dangerous place No one can be trusted I have no worth My situation can’t change I have no rights (what is a deep belief that you hold) The dance of course correction There is a dance that we are invited to participate in. It’s a dance of ‘course correction’. When I was in school, we had square dancing. We would choose a partner, and then four couples would stand in a square. The frazzled teacher (frazzled after herding children) would put a record on the record player and out would come some scratchy American folk singer encouraging us to take your partner, swing them to the left and right, dosey doe and go to someplace called ‘Red River Valley’. It was rhythm and patterns, and you got to dance with that pretty girl! I believe we are all in a course correction dance with partners who are perfect in every way, know the exact steps to take, and are very gracious about our stepping on their toes. My little logo for Turning the Page symbolizes this. Four dancing spirals, or Koru. God as Parent, Jesus the Son, and Spirit is inviting us to change the way we think and act. I get invitations to course-correct every day. Some I ignore and some I explore. Some I take in and make them part of my thinking compass. I don’t want you or anyone else to keep on heading towards disasters – large or small, but it requires a willingness to change the way you think and act.   Mental Health is ... accepting that we need to change the way we think and actCLICK TO TWEET   Quotes to consider Metanoeite, or change of consciousness, can only come with time. Patience is the very shape of love. Without it, religion is merely about enforcing laws and requirements. Richard Rohr Patience The word change normally refers to new beginnings. But transformation more often happens not when something new begins but when something old falls apart. The pain of something old falling apart—disruption and chaos—invites the soul to listen at a deeper level. It invites and sometimes forces the soul to go to a new place because the old place is not working anymore. Richard Rohr When Things Fall Apart Change can either help people to find a new meaning, or it can cause people to close down and turn bitter. The difference is determined by the quality of our inner life, or what we call “spirituality.” Change of itself just happens; spiritual transformation is an active process of letting go, living in the confusing dark space for a while, and allowing yourself to be spit up on a new and unexpected shore. You can see why Jonah in the belly of the whale is such an important symbol for many Jews and Christians. Richard Rohr When Things Fall Apart Questions to consider Do you ever have moments where you mutter to yourself, ‘Why do I keep on doing that’? We all want others to change, but how difficult is it to change yourself? Why? What is a false, misleading belief that you have that seems to look for evidence of being true? e.g., I have no worth Further Reading What Swiss Cheese has taught me about Forgiving Myself and Others How to Develop a Compass for the Brain Mental Health is … You Taking Ownership of You Barry Pearman Photo by Vandan Patel on Unsplash  

Do you keep making the same bad choices over and over again? You can change, and it all begins with a decision to change the way you think and act. It was New Zealand’s worst airline disaster. On November 28th, 1979, Air New Zealand Flight 901 flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. All 237 passengers and 20 crew died. I remember the first news reports coming in on TV in the evening, saying that the flight was overdue and that contact had been lost. We woke the next morning to a tragedy. Initially, it was concluded that it was pilot error, but a Royal Commission was set up to dig deeper. It found that two factors caused the accident. A correction made to the coordinates of the flight path the night before the disaster and a failure to inform the flight crew of the change. The result was that the aircraft was being guided by the computer in a direct path toward Mount Erebus. . Surely you would think the pilots would be able to see the mountain in front of them and steer to avoid it, but they were in whiteout conditions. Outside there was a layer of clouds that blended with the white of the snow-covered volcano, forming a sector whiteout – there was no contrast between the two to warn the pilots. The effect deceived everyone on the flight deck, making them believe that the white mountainside was the Ross Ice Shelf. Mount Erebus disaster Then there was the attempt to cover up the causes of the disaster. Justice Mahon, chair of the Royal Commission, accused Air New Zealand of presenting “an orchestrated litany of lies.” Your disaster I’ve known a few disasters in my life. I’ve also seen others have crashes. Many of them preventable. Then there are those crashes that are repeated time and time. You keep on doing the same thing, expecting different results, but wind up with the same disaster on your hands. You blame other people. Accusations fly. You hide the facts and twist the truth.  You orchestrate a ‘litany of lies’ believing them to be true. Deep down, though, it was you that was making the same decisions. It’s like you have an onboard computer with wrong coordinates loaded into it, flying you towards an inevitable disaster. Change the way you think and act. Then there was a time of momentous change in the history of the world, but for one man, it got extremely personal. He had his inbuilt computer brain telling him to always respond to a situation in a certain way. Even though he had been a follower of Jesus for three years, and had listened to everything Jesus had said, seen all the miracles, he still had the disaster. Peter denied knowing Jesus, and suddenly his world collapsed. Later he was forgiven and restored, but this was a pivotal moment in Peter’s life. It was a time of course correction. He had to change his thinking and acting. Later, that is his message to an equally misguided group of people. Change the way you think and act. Acts 2:38 3:19 Change is a course correction—an alteration in your thinking, which leads to new actions and behaviors. One of my favorite quotes is from the French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist Simeon Weil. Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction. Simone Weil, Waiting for God We all have turned our gaze in the wrong direction. All of us have some disastrous coordinates programmed into our neural pathways.  Often these are there from childhood. Early conclusions we made about life steers our ship. Every day we have experiences that subconsciously reinforce our belief that … The world is a dangerous place No one can be trusted I have no worth My situation can’t change I have no rights (what is a deep belief that you hold) The dance of course correction There is a dance that we are invited to participate in. It’s a dance of ‘course correction’. When I was in school, we had square dancing. We would choose a partner, and then four couples would stand in a square. The frazzled teacher (frazzled after herding children) would put a record on the record player and out would come some scratchy American folk singer encouraging us to take your partner, swing them to the left and right, dosey doe and go to someplace called ‘Red River Valley’. It was rhythm and patterns, and you got to dance with that pretty girl! I believe we are all in a course correction dance with partners who are perfect in every way, know the exact steps to take, and are very gracious about our stepping on their toes. My little logo for Turning the Page symbolizes this. Four dancing spirals, or Koru. God as Parent, Jesus the Son, and Spirit is inviting us to change the way we think and act. I get invitations to course-correct every day. Some I ignore and some I explore. Some I take in and make them part of my thinking compass. I don’t want you or anyone else to keep on heading towards disasters – large or small, but it requires a willingness to change the way you think and act.   Mental Health is ... accepting that we need to change the way we think and actCLICK TO TWEET   Quotes to consider Metanoeite, or change of consciousness, can only come with time. Patience is the very shape of love. Without it, religion is merely about enforcing laws and requirements. Richard Rohr Patience The word change normally refers to new beginnings. But transformation more often happens not when something new begins but when something old falls apart. The pain of something old falling apart—disruption and chaos—invites the soul to listen at a deeper level. It invites and sometimes forces the soul to go to a new place because the old place is not working anymore. Richard Rohr When Things Fall Apart Change can either help people to find a new meaning, or it can cause people to close down and turn bitter. The difference is determined by the quality of our inner life, or what we call “spirituality.” Change of itself just happens; spiritual transformation is an active process of letting go, living in the confusing dark space for a while, and allowing yourself to be spit up on a new and unexpected shore. You can see why Jonah in the belly of the whale is such an important symbol for many Jews and Christians. Richard Rohr When Things Fall Apart Questions to consider Do you ever have moments where you mutter to yourself, ‘Why do I keep on doing that’? We all want others to change, but how difficult is it to change yourself? Why? What is a false, misleading belief that you have that seems to look for evidence of being true? e.g., I have no worth Further Reading What Swiss Cheese has taught me about Forgiving Myself and Others How to Develop a Compass for the Brain Mental Health is … You Taking Ownership of You Barry Pearman Photo by Vandan Patel on Unsplash  

00:00:00 - Patrick puts forth proposals for less automobile-focused cities (see more on his Twitter feed @pvwheatley) before we dive into part 1 of Ryan’s interview with UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography Ph.D. Student Maya Becker. She attended the UN’s climate change conference last year (COP25) and then wrote an op-ed about climate change for her local paper. We talk about how scientists can find advocacy that works for them. 00:28:52 - Getting a lot done can be aided by the right beverage. Maya is a coffee fiend and enjoys The WestBean Coffee Roasters for her local fix. Ryan got to go to a farm for beer, which lured him into trying the white IPA Barred Owl from the Brookeville Beer Farm. 00:35:12 - Since Patrick hasn’t been around for a minute we double down on the drinks segment. You’re welcome. Patrick walks Ryan through his home fermentation experiment trying to make some homemade ginger beer. You’ll have to listen in for the results. Ryan has a beer mimicking a style from across the pond with a Proper Porter from Elder Pine Brewing & Blending. 00:47:51 - Enough about policy and beverages, let’s get down to some science. Maya tells us about her research, which involves the dynamics of ice along the underside of the Ross Ice Shelf in a rapidly warming Antarctica using satellites. You can follow along generally by checking out Scripps’ Twitter (@scripps_ocean) and Instagram (@scripps_ocean) feeds. 01:17:41 - PaleoPOWs can also sit on a shelf if they’re physical and sent to us in such a way that they can be displayed. We begin with an inspired 5-star iTunes review from Jackdu24. Thanks, Jackdu24! And we then bestow a thesis upon patron Lindsay M. who has successfully defended: Paedomorphosis of Penguins: Exploring the environmental biology of childlike chicks on Antarctica’s Ross Sea. Thanks, Lindsay! If you write an op-ed or make some ginger beer, let us know so we can feature you on a future segment! More cool rewards await you if you decide to support us on our Patreon! Music credit: Ice Pack - Poddington Bear

"A tear sloped across her cheek, clear and acidic as white cider, pausing mutely for a moment on the gentle curve of her chin before throwing itself groundwards with sorrowful intent. The wet driplet burst upon his exposed chest, rigid with defined musculature and the creeping shadow of rigor-mortis. Chad Bullet, she whispered into the softly falling snow, I loved you..." Icy terrors are creeping across the Ross Ice Shelf, and Chaps McChinsky's fridge freezer has gone missing. There may be an Antarctic wasteland to conquer, an insidious quest for a better kind of chicken to unfurl and one very weak-willed penguin to best... but Chaps' isn't the kind of man to leave a fridge behind. Deep Freeze is a new, feature length audio romp inspired by 80's machismo, 90's horror games and evergreen cheese!

On the newest episode of the WholisticMatters Podcast Series, professional endurance athlete Colin O'Brady discusses with John Troup, PhD, the idea of pushing the limits of human potential, for this is what O’Brady did to become the first person in history to traverse the continent of Antarctica from the tip of the Ronne Ice Shelf to the tip of the Ross Ice Shelf, via the South Pole – unsupported and unaided. O’Brady talks about why he uses social media to reach and inspire people and about how important it was to receive the proper nutrition to achieve the impossible in Antarctica. He also describes the mantra that kept him going throughout his journey, happy and calm or tired and discourged: “This too will change.” Don’t forget to listen to our other podcast with Colin O’Brady, where he talked about inspiring others by asking them, “What’s your Everest?”

Maria Leijerstam is a Welsh British polar adventurer and a Wales 2016 Year of Adventure ambassador. She was the first person to cycle to the South Pole from the edge of the continent in 2013.  Leijerstam started her expedition on the Ross Ice Shelf at the edge of the Antarctic continent. She cycled for 10hrs to 17hrs each day with no rest days, and the total distance cycled was 638 km (396 mi). Leijerstam cycled a uniquely designed, three wheeled Polar Cycle, a modernised form of polar travel, demonstrating that cycling can be more efficient than skiing to the South Pole.   Show notes Why she doesn’t call herself an explorer Growing up and wanting to be an astronaut  Her childhood Getting into more extreme adventures Always living in a mans world Joining the Officer Training Corps Learning how to look after herself How she started her journey into adventure Doing the Marathon des Sables! The lead up to the race, dealing with nerves and preparing her body for the heat Knowing how your body responds during a challenge Learning how to manage pain Why you put your body through the extreme challenges? Being the 200th person to ever reach the South Pole Doing an adventure race & what she loves about it The last wild race in Patagonia Handling team dynamics during adventure races When races fall apart… Dealing with discomfort and managing your pain Colour therapy 4 years preparation to get to the South Pole Testing out equipment and figuring out what was going to work £100,000 needed to do the expedition and how she paid for it Dealing with rejection Getting onto the ice and the relief she felt What she leant from the experience of planning and doing the polar expedition Coming home and returning to Wales Future goals and plans Being a mother of 2 and how she fits fitness into her life

New research confirms that Antarctica will contribute sigificantly to future sea level rise unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed from 2020 onwards.

New research confirms that Antarctica will contribute sigificantly to future sea level rise unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed from 2020 onwards.

Visitors to Disneyland left with something more than just exhaustion and overpriced souvenirs this month. The Happiest Place on Earth has been identified as ground zero for an outbreak of Measles that has so far infected more than 84 people. Why Did Vaccinated People Get Measles at Disneyland? Blame the Unvaccinated Sherri Tenpenny's Australian Tour Cancelled #stoptenpenny The Vaccination Chronicles Read Roald Dahl's Powerful Pro-Vaccination Letter (From 1988) 4 Ways Oprah Screwed The World (Nobody Ever Calls Her On) Scientists drilling in the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica have been surprised to find translucent fish and other aquatic animals living in perpetual darkness and cold, beneath a roof of ice 740 metres thick. There's a promising new stem cell treatment for the most common form of Multiple Sclerosis. After three years, 86 percent of trial patients have had no relapses, and 91 percent are showing no signs of MS development. In 2003, the Mars lander Beagle 2 was lost during its landing on Mars. Eleven years later the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found it - intact but only partially deployed. The 79AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius is famous for burying - and preserving - the city of Pompeii. But it also preserved another nearby town, Herculaneum. A new X-Ray technique is helping archaeologists read scrolls found there without opening and damaging them.