Team members say

Hi di Ho,

It´s about time you hear something about me. I´m still having a wonderful time!!! Way to go! Last night we were camping in the mountain in tents, and it was quite an experience. Different from the camping I was used of in Europe. It was cold and there was no real toilet, so I decided to sleep with all the layers I had, in the sleeping bag. It worked fortunately, I didn´t suffer at all. No cold feet nor cold hands whatsoever. But the only thing was, I couldn´t fall asleep, and when I did it was superficially, and on top of that I needed to go to the made up lavatory. That was not fun! But I made it and it was a big relieve, thinking of an empty bladder, and keeping Antarctica clean.

Actually we´re being kept pretty busy, no time to get bored nor to meditate. Time is going fast, and before I know it´s over. Two more days are left for the South Shetlands and than 2 last days to go back through the Drake Passage.

After that we´ll spent 3 days in Buenos Aires and than back home. I can´t wait to tell you all I´ve experienced!! See you pretty soon!

Art

Hello tur hende,

Ki tin,? I’ll continue in English, so that everybody can understand. After my last mail to you all (via Claudette) we rapidly embarked on the ship, and heard that it wasn’t allowed to make contact. So this might be the last mail you´ll get from me. Everything is going well. I´m very honoured to participate in this expedition, and get along well with everybody. The food is oke, sleeping take sometimes time to snooze in, but other than that I feel like ´God in France´ and the scenery is so beautiful. Really, and this is just the beginning. Tonight we`ll anchor in front of Bellingshausen en tomorrow we´ll get ashore, to meet e.g. Robert Swan. I´m sure everything is A-oke with you all. Don´t forget not to send me mails with attachments, or preferably no mail at all, unless it´s necessary. Take care, all the best, and who knows I might be able to mail again.

Arthur Nieuw

Arthur’s initial thoughts on climate change…

To inspire and teach, especially young people about the cause of it [climate change] and how to prevent it from getting worse.