Antarctic Explorer Fights Ski Skin Crisis Midway
“My skin, a non-slip tape attached to and detached from the bottom of skis, fell off four times in one day. I folded it and placed it under my armpits and navel to thaw, then pressed it tightly against the ski and hugged it. I love you! Don’t fall off!” (November 10, 2024, Day 3 of the operation) Every day, I sent a single-line message to the emergency contact network. I had installed an application called ‘Inrich,’ which is a GPS device that allows me to send my location and messages. Inrich automatically updated my movement distance on an online map every hour. Anyone could check how many kilometers I had walked and what the weather was like. Antarctica has no internet, and only satellite phones can communicate. It was a survival report of sorts, proving that I was still walking at a normal pace today in a space cut off from the world on the opposite side of the globe. I thought people would guess my well-being from the single sentence I sent daily. I couldn’t burden those watching...