Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/19/2008 - 05:47

hell, my name is lydia and im a student at hartford highschool,

i was wonering if there are any dangers you've faced while living in antarctica, if so what were they?

Kirk Beckendorf

Hi Lydia,
Sorry to have taken so long to reply. I was never in any immediate danger while in Antarctica. One does have to be careful there though because the weather conditions can get bad really quickly and if a person is not prepared they could find themself in trouble. We also flew a lot in helicopters and small airplanes into remote areas. The pilots were all very experienced and very good, but we were often landing in places without runways and in places where nobody had landed in a number of years, so that can be dangerous. One airplane crashed about a week before I got there, fortunately everyone was ok.
Thanks for writing
Mr. B.