Union Glacier Camp

No, not at the sub-peaks, though.

We did this cool traverse that you could see from, like, the kitchen tent or whatever in, uh, in Union Glacier, whatever it was.

Union Glacier, yeah.

Yeah, but we traversed all these peaks.

It was, like, straight out of the Sierra.

So it's a very popular trip.

They station on Union Glacier and wait for the weather to to be just right to do their mountaineering adventure.

And they fly over this pyramid.

And I said, oh, wow, so you've seen it.

You can fly to some of these areas.

You can fly from Heathrow down to Santiago, Santiago to Punta Arenas, Punta Arenas into Union Glacier.

Whereas when they did it, it was... it's still a great big piece of, uh, white sheet on a map, and they were going across areas no one had ever been before.

So it was, into this day and age, it was extraordinary.

But really that was balmy.

At 69 in 2022, She became the oldest woman to take on the Antarctic Ice Marathon at Union Glacier.

An American adventure company had got in touch to offer her a last-minute drop-out place.

She had just three weeks to train, get to Antarctica, and buy a good pair of off-road shoes.

They did not stay on the peninsula.

They flew to Union Glacier, deep inside West Antarctica.

They filmed there.

They live streamed from there.

And whatever they had traveled there to test, one thing was already clear.

Ordinary civilians had reached Union Glacier deep inside Antarctica.

So the simple version of the claim where normal people are not allowed to pass the coast, well, that does not survive.

Antarctica, however, is still tightly controlled.

But really that was balmy.

At 69 in 2022, She became the oldest woman to take on the Antarctic Ice Marathon at Union Glacier.

An American adventure company had got in touch to offer her a last-minute drop-out place.

She had just three weeks to train, get to Antarctica and buy a good pair of off-road shoes.

Yeah.

So I went to this polar camp called Union Glacier Camp, which actually has a loop.

And I was able to use that loop and I would run five to six.

Loops, each loop being 10 kilometres per day.