Because of the hazards on the continent containing the South Pole, explorers
are led by two mountaineers, including a Colorado guide who outsmarted armed
bandits in Africa, led expeditions to peaks such as Mount Kilimanjaro and,
without blinking, made life-or-death survival decisions for clients.
Colorado Springs-based guide Jamie Pierce sees job No. 1 as ensuring the
safety of researchers scouring the deep-frozen continent for shards of solar
system debris. "It's still the same place that killed Robert Scott and his
men," Pierce, 33, said in a telephone interview from McMurdo Station.
Jamie Pierce is not the only Colorado person in Antarctica. There is a second one, a teacher from Castle Rock (about 30 miles south of Denver). His name is Andrew Caldwell and he is in charge of writing the daily journal of the expedition. You can meet him at this URL:
http://tea.rice.edu/tea_caldwellfrontpage.html
I wrote to him and invited him to join the COMETS.
He wrote back and said he would! :-)
Anne Black
IMCA #2356
www.IMPACTIKA.com
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
