Antarctic training at Tekapo
About 130 members of New Zealand’s 1975 Antarctic research expedition will go to Tekapo next Friday for a week of Antarctic orientation training, receiving lectures on safety procedures, communications, fire drills, and the practical use of a wide, range of field equipment. Because of general snow conditions and avalanche risk, the expedition members would not this year go to the Tasman Glacier and Ball Hut area, said the superintendent of the Antarctic Division of the D.S.I.R. (Mr R. B. Thomson). This decision had been made before the news of the avalanche which killed four members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Special training will be given to the team of men who will assist the Americans in recovering two crashed skiequipped Hercules aircraft on the Polar Plateau.
Among those attending the week’s training will be seven women, included in the summer research programme, and two hut caretakers who will spend about three weeks in the Antarctic, probably in January. The first New Zealanders of the main summer party will start for Scott Base on October 8. when the Americans begin their scheduled flights south.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33925, 19 August 1975, Page 28
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