our beloved the ross ice shelf team is
at a dead stop in a growing storm 100
miles from help you out you in the
middle of nowhere no one’s really been
here before your life is in danger if
you go outside and hang around there too
long rob has to change a flat tire on
the lead vehicle in the middle of
whiteout conditions before they can get
moving again i told i’m just going to
back it up onto that block a little bit
and then i’ll come out and we’ll set
this up and then as I draw it back
hopefully it’ll just push those tracks
apart we can whip that out damn good
I had no idea that I could go wrong on
the pistenbully I just assumed that you
just drive on the tracks i am not a
mechanic but Robson amazing mechanic now
we’re cooking you can see that it’s got
a gash out of the side here so the ice
just ripped into the side of it the snow
and ice conditions you get an intact the
current like really anywhere else in the
world you just got to manage it we got
the spare tire here we go working in
places like this it’s not always about
what you want to do or hey you want to
do it that’s it’s almost entirely what
you have to do it was all right the team
has only been stopped for 45 minutes but
conditions have gotten much worse that’s
windy these blowing snow and then
affects your visibility it gets quite
difficult to drive it’s kind of getting
to the point where it’s really only a
couple of options or you’re open we have
to make a call to either make camp for
the night or push on try and make up a
bit more time yeah
the reality is we have to stop
everything stay where we are hunker down
keep everybody warm but now with what we
can see out there it’s probably just not
worth going anywhere so to shame to lose
one day you know one of our weather days
even when we’re not even doing the
science but you know what to definitely
displaying thought yeah hey we’re gonna
get down
at a dead stop in a growing storm 100
miles from help you out you in the
middle of nowhere no one’s really been
here before your life is in danger if
you go outside and hang around there too
long rob has to change a flat tire on
the lead vehicle in the middle of
whiteout conditions before they can get
moving again i told i’m just going to
back it up onto that block a little bit
and then i’ll come out and we’ll set
this up and then as I draw it back
hopefully it’ll just push those tracks
apart we can whip that out damn good
I had no idea that I could go wrong on
the pistenbully I just assumed that you
just drive on the tracks i am not a
mechanic but Robson amazing mechanic now
we’re cooking you can see that it’s got
a gash out of the side here so the ice
just ripped into the side of it the snow
and ice conditions you get an intact the
current like really anywhere else in the
world you just got to manage it we got
the spare tire here we go working in
places like this it’s not always about
what you want to do or hey you want to
do it that’s it’s almost entirely what
you have to do it was all right the team
has only been stopped for 45 minutes but
conditions have gotten much worse that’s
windy these blowing snow and then
affects your visibility it gets quite
difficult to drive it’s kind of getting
to the point where it’s really only a
couple of options or you’re open we have
to make a call to either make camp for
the night or push on try and make up a
bit more time yeah
the reality is we have to stop
everything stay where we are hunker down
keep everybody warm but now with what we
can see out there it’s probably just not
worth going anywhere so to shame to lose
one day you know one of our weather days
even when we’re not even doing the
science but you know what to definitely
displaying thought yeah hey we’re gonna
get down
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