Polar Blog

We finish our navigation on a high note, sailing in front of the Cape Horn. The waters around Cape Horn are particularly hazardous, owing...

We left the icebergs behind us, starting 2 full days at sea accross the Drake passage On our way back, the seas are a little rough but...

Today we land at one of the most important site of the Commandant Charcot first expedition in 1903. The weather today is Antarctica...

ps: Day 12 post has now been updated. We navigate north, in the Crystal Sound, with the Antartica Peninsula on starboard side. A "sound"...

Stonington island is a landmark place, site of the British Base-E. Today was a very busy day, with a first successful landing at...

Antarctica is a very quiet place... We wake up this morning, surrounded by the ice shelf, and if we may think we have not moved at all...

After a day at sea, around 8pm, the ship stops at Cape Brown, near the George VI ice shelf, and we get to disembark on the Antarctica...

Antarctica from a climate category perspective is a desert, a white desert. It never rains in Antarctica, and certainly much less than in...

Today is a sad day. My grandmother, Marianne, passed away at 99. That is a long life well-lived. As I travel at the other end of world...

This island is named after the famous ship of Commandant Charcot. During the night we sailed south from Detaille island, along Adelaide...

Detaille Island is a very important historical site. It is where the British Base-W is located. Built in 1956, it had to be suddenly...

Beautiful weather for this second day of navigation and we start seeing the first distinctive signs of Antarctica. Our first tabular...

We are very lucky with the weather crossing the Drake Passage. Today is a full day of navigation at sea, as it takes 2 days to cross the...

Reaching Ushuaia, the city at the end of the world. Ushuaia is the southernmost tip of South America, one of the most remote city of the...

We wanted to get into more local areas today and decided to walk around the Barrio (district) of Lastarria and Bella Vista. We took an...

Just getting to Ushuaia from Tokyo is a journey in itself. Here we are, this is the first post. We finally landed in Santiago de Chile,...