Pictures: Happy Camper Snow School
Transport & Training
| Loading up the "nodwell" | 
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| Interior of the nodwell | 
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| The "instructor's hut" | 
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| Training on the campstoves | 
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| Jon is fascinated by fire | 
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Building a snow camp
| Erecting and anchoring the Scott Tent | 
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| Completed! | 
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| Attacked by a hungry skua | 
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| Skua perched triumphantly on the outhouse | 
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| Shoveling the snow mound | 
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| Pounding down the snow mound | 
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| Building a snow wall | 
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| The campsite has taken shape | 
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| Our snow kitchen | 
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| Kath poses with CNN's prop at the mouth of a snow cave | 
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| Inside a snow mound | 
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The cravasse adventure
| Rope teams for ascending to the cravasse field | 
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| Mike about to go down | 
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| Kath's turn to be lowered into the cravasse! | 
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| More cravasse | 
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| Kath in the cravasse | 
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| Mark being lowered | 
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| The CNN crew takes a turn down the cravasse | 
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| How to get someone out of a cravasse | 
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| The Polies take a rugged hero shot | 
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| Hiking in rope teams down from the cravasse field | 
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| Hero shot of Jon | 
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