Part of the shoreline off of the East coast of Devon Island, NU, Canada. The flight was stellar- wish everyone could have seen through my eyes.

Another beautiful waterfall see on Ellesmere Island, NU, Canada.

Taken somewhere on Devon Island- wish I had a GPS hooked up to my camera to show where.

The 24 hours of sun takes its toll on the glaciers and they melt to form massive waterfalls cascading over the massive cliffs.  Flying up rock valleys with waterfalls on either side is quite breathtaking.

Last year I flew around the high Canadian Arctic with a bunch of scientists that were conducting a Walrus survey.  There were some incredible sights to be seen. Not many Canadaians realize the beauty that exists up here.
This is a picture of Coburg Island of the southern tip of Ellesmere Island.  Check it out on Google Maps.

This was shot during the most misserable 4 hours of my life.

During the Journey home, we needed to switch the plane from skis to wheels.  In order to accomplish this we landed at a place called “Sky Blue” which was aptly named due to the blue ice that has been kept clear for years and years.  Clear enough for us to land, switch plane configurations to wheels, and take off again.  This is necessary due to the next stop being Rothera, Antarctica, where there is a gravel runway.

When we landed the weather was beautiful.  No wind, sunny, and warm.  20 minutes later, a constant 40 knot wind hit us and never left.  Freezing FREEZING cold wind, and snow, beat on us for 4 hours while we changed the plane to wheels.  Lots of the work involved bare hands and taking your hands out of your gloves in these temperatures hurt. This was after we had all been up for about 20 hours.  Not fun, but we sucked it up and got it done.

This is me.  Jumping over the South Pole. Something that I have done, and will never do again.  The majority of the people in this world will never have the chance, nor the means, to do so.  For that I find myself incredibly lucky.  At the time I didn’t really understand appreciate that.

The journey down to Antartica was quite an adventure.  Long flight to Australia, then New Zealand, and in the end, the ICE.  The flight from Christchurch, NZ to McMurdo, Antartica was the best.  Flying on a military C-17- that seems as if it could fly an apartment building in its cargo hold- was awesome.

In this picture you can see everyone in their extreme cold weather gear sleeping on the 4 hour leg down to McMurdo.

Thai man and woman hanging out in their shop.  The location eludes me.. It was a small beach town on one of the south eastern side of Thailand, on Koh Samui.

Taken somewhere over Peru on our trip back home from Antarctica.

The DHC-6 Twin Otter has the capabilities to go where not many have gone before.  Like Cloudmaker Mountain, Antartica.  We brought a few scientists here to collect Lichen samples.
The blue stuff you see in the picture is ice.  Very slippery and somewhat dangerous to land on due to the reduced ability to control the aircraft, but provides a relatively smooth surface, compared to other alternatives.   In addition to the slip-n-slide, the wind was howling at ~35 knots.  That’s why we had to tie it down to ice screws!