Rubbing Shoulders with the Best and Brightest

Today I was thinking about the coolest things about my job. Other than living here and getting to see the scenery every day from up close, I am in a melting pot of some of the best a brightest scientists and mountaineers. Part of my job is doing science support for the trips going out into the field. They take small puddlejumpers for a few hundred miles to drop off passengers and supplies to the deepfreeze field camps throughout the continent. The other day I had some time to help load a plane for a british crew collecting rock samples on the ice shelf hundreds of miles down and an American team testing the ice on a glacier. I spent about an hour talking to mountaineers, search and rescue leaders, and scientists excited to get out and see what the place was like. The other day I saw a film crew return from a field camp in a snow Cat. They went out for a few days and from that they will make a documentary with some deep-voiced Englishman talking about the harshest continent on earth. I still cannot believe that I am meeting some of the best and brightest in the world. This is a crazy place, and the people here are just as nuts!