ground penetrating radar (GPR), 10–11, 36, 41, 60; imagery displayed by, 43–44, 48, 66–69, 74
Hamilton, Gordon, 121, 231
Harvey, Paul, 130
Hawthorne, Ann, 180
Helo-Ops, 53, 56, 63
Herzog, Werner, 55
HFS (Home Free South), description of, 41
Hillary, Sir Edmund, 4, 12–13, 128–29, 142, 285
Hooper, Rebecca, 185, 199, 283–84, 284
hot-water drill, description of, 57–58
Horak, Ralph, 33–34, 36–37, 73, 75–76
International Polar Year, 270
Jackson, Scotty, 257, 260, 264–65, 268
Jensen, Katy, 20–25, 213–15
Johnson, Brad, 80, 82–83, 90, 132, 135, 138, 144–45, 147–48, 154, 173, 181, 183–85,188–90, 96–98, 203–5, 209–11, 219, 222–23, 225–27, 232–33, 238, 240–42, 244, 246, 248–53, 255–57, 264, 267–68, 274–75, 278–80, 282–83, 288–89
Kuhn, Thomas (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions), 27
Lever, Jim, 80–83, 108–10, 136–38, 143–47, 149–50, 152, 154–56, 166–67, 238, 278
Leverett Glacier, choice of, 12, 122
Lilley, Raymond (Associated Press), 127–30
Little America, 285
living module, description of, 93
Lyman, Tom, 61–64, 66–73, 75, 77, 81–85, 87, 173, 178–79, 185–88, 199, 201–3, 205–9, 221–24, 227, 229, 231, 233, 237, 239, 248, 254–55, 267–69, 274, 280–83, 288–89
Mac-Ops, 47, 88, 93, 98, 101–2, 107, 110, 180–81, 290
Mac-Weather, 55, 81, 224
Magsig Rampart, 206, 275
Magsig, Russell, 5, 17–18, 31, 42, 45, 49–50, 52–54, 56–58, 60–63, 66–70, 72–73, 75–79, 82, 88–91, 96, 98–100, 102–6, 115, 118, 121, 126, 132, 138, 140–42, 144–45, 147, 150, 153–55, 162–63, 166–67, 173, 181, 184–85, 188–89, 195–99, 202–6, 220, 223, 229, 233, 236–37, 239, 242, 244, 247, 249–51, 253, 255, 266–68, 272, 274, 279–80, 289
Marble Point, 17, 97, 115
Marisat, dish antenna, 246, 248–49, 256
Marty, Jerry, 249, 254–55, 261, 264, 266, 268–71, 279
Mary Lou, naming of, 95, 132
Maxine, 104
McCabe, James, 94, 96–99, 102, 104–5, 107, 110, 118, 141
McMurdo Ice Shelf, description of, 43
McMurdo Sound, 97
Medley, Jason, 249, 254, 256, 268, 270–72
Metcalf, Scott “Scooter,” 105–6, 108–9, 117–22
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), 23
Minna Bluff, 9, 13, 43, 59, 188, 284
Miracle Mile, 65, 67, 77, 84, 88–89
Montgomery, Brooks, 31, 34–35
Mount Discovery, 284
Mount Erebus, description of, 59, 284
Mount Everest, 132
Mount Vinson, 14
Nansen, Fridtjof, 66
National Geographic photographer, 249, 251, 253–54, 258, 268, 270
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), 190–91, 193, 201
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), 190, 194
New York Air National Guard (NYANG), 9, 190
Norman, Shaun, 42, 44–50, 52–58, 60–64, 66-73, 75–76, 78–79, 81–83, 88–90
O’Bannon, Allen, 89, 98, 101–2, 104–5, 152, 154, 159
Ofstedal, Pete, 191–94
Orwell, George (1984), 115
Ousland, Børge, 200
Pacheco, David, 98
Paioff, Marvin, 125–26
Palmer Station, 249
Paul Buck, 160
Peary, Robert E., 286
Pegasus Field, 72, 91
Penney, John, 86, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102–5, 110, 118, 135–36, 138, 144, 147, 149–50, 153–54
Pentecost, Scott, 64
Pietrek, Rick, 82, 86–87, 288
PistenBully, description of, 42
Polar Plateau, description of, 220–21
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, 95
Quadzilla, naming of, 95, 132
RADARSAT, 112; description of imagery, 137, 153, 192, 207
Reed, Marty, 86
Reedy Glacier, 207, 221
Roberts, Mike, 131–32, 135–36, 276
Rocky Mountain Front Range, 14
Ross Ice Shelf (RIS), description of, 3, 43
Ross, Sir James, 286
Round the World Race, 266–67
Royal Society Range, 14, 97
Salk, Jonas, 173
sastrugi, description of, 111; definition of, 213
Sastrugi National Park, 228, 231, 262, 269
Scanniello, Jeff, 76–77, 79, 185, 193
Schernthanner, Liesl, 239–40, 254, 267, 269
Schwartz, Jeff, 125, 127
Scott Base, 13
Scott Glacier, 207, 221
Scott, Robert Falcon, 3, 12, 156, 195, 246, 258, 285–86
Sea Ice Runway, 97
Setz, Herb, 96, 109, 270
Shackleton, Ernest, 3, 12, 195, 285–86
Shaw, Brandon, 89
Shear Zone, description of, 13, 44, 91–92; behavior of, 92
Shear Zone camp, description of, 46–47, 62–63
Shoals of Intractable Funding, 10, 15, 112, 147, 190, 202
Sievert, Richard, 96
Silverton, Colorado, 256
Skelton Glacier, 12, 142, 285
Smith, Scotty-Bob, 261, 263–64
snow swamp, descriptions of on RIS, 117, 121–22; descriptions of on Polar Plateau, 234
South Pole Comms, 247–48, 255, 275
South Pole Investigative Traverse (SPIT), 10, 14–15, 41
South Pole Station, description of, 259–61
Spenser, Edmund (The Faerie Queene), 125
spreader bar sled, description of, 184
Stevens, Wallace (“Anecdote of the Jar”), 253–54
Stokstad, Robert, 19
Stone, Brian, 30–32, 57–58
Summit Camp, Greenland, 225
Support Force Antarctica, 9
Sutherland, Al, 235–37, 239
synthetic aperture radar, 103
Szundy, Matthew, 109, 123–27
Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR), 22, 28–29
Transantarctic Mountains, 14, 106, 112, 123, 135, 150, 188, 196, 199, 243, 280, 285; salient of, 285
True Grit Café, 6, 220
Truesdell, Buddy, 96
Uhde, Kim “Bwana,” 61–63, 66–73, 75–76, 78–80, 84–90, 179
U.S. Geological Survey Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, 206
U.S. Merchant Marine tanker, 26
U.S. Navy, 9
U.S. Navy Seabee, 23
Vaitonis, Carol, 250, 284, 289
Vaitonis, Richard “Stretch,” 42, 49–53, 56, 78–79, 94, 96, 98–99, 102, 104–5, 107, 109–10, 115, 118, 120, 126, 132, 135, 138, 144, 153–54, 170, 173–74, 177, 179, 181, 184–86, 188–89, 195–99, 203–6, 208–10, 219–24, 226, 228, 234, 237–44, 245–47, 249–57, 266–68, 272, 274–75, 281, 284–85, 289
Van Vlack, John “John V.,” 173, 179, 181, 184, 187–89, 195, 198, 202–5, 207, 210, 222–223, 234, 237–38, 242, 248, 251, 254–55, 257–58, 267–68, 272, 274, 278–83
Walker, Jessica, 139
Watson, Dave, 25, 267
Weale, Jason, 33, 37, 96
Weather Forecaster Bill “Wx Bill,” 224–25
Wells, H. G. (A Short History of the World), 187
West, Peter, 130
Wheat, Steve, 193–94, 201, 225
Wheater, Brian, 3–5, 9, 13, 50, 52, 174, 179, 220
White Island, 59, 188, 284
Whitmore, Megan, 260–61
Williams Field, 3–4, 17, 41, 58, 95–96, 98, 110, 134, 162, 165, 179–80, 192, 289–90
Yankielun, Norbert, 102–5, 108–9, 118–21
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John H. Wright began his career in the underground mines of the American West as a mining geologist and hard rock miner. With the closing of the western frontier he headed south
to Antarctica, serving first as an explosives engineer, then later driving a tunnel in the ice beneath the South Pole. Because of his record in service to the United States Antarctic Program executing dangerous, difficult jobs with an impeccable record for safety and achievement, he was selected to lead the historic South Pole Traverse Proof-of-Concept Project. He is honored to tell its story.
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