A Long Way Down !!

A little over 2 years ago I was fortunate (or mad) enough to travel to the Antarctic to cover a marathon (yep - 42km) and 100km race ! The winner of the marathon took a little over four and a half hours in pretty good conditions - it was only minus 20C for the race and the winner of the 100km race took twelve hours !
The base is set up every year approx 600km from the south pole and is used as base for a variety of purposes - the kite skier in these images made it to the south pole in 5 days dragging his pod behind him which is pretty impressive !!
Here are some of the images from what turned out to be an amazing 2 weeks (including an enforced stay of an extra 7 days over xmas due to high winds which meant it was impossible to get the plane in from Chile to take us home)