Spent the morning on a glacier here in Ushuaia, manning a station on the trail and greeting the team members as they made their way up the path. Today was "advanced ground school", and gave the team an opportunity to practice roping up to each other and traversing some dicey ground...all preparation for what we'll encounter when we get to Antarctica. Our three guides are fantastic...between them they have over 80 years of mountaineering experience and I'm loving hearing stories of Everest ascents and the culture in Nepal.
The guys from Cycle for Water arrived last night. It was a great moment. They had arrived in Ushuaia to find that their parents had flown in to surprise them all the way from the Netherlands. They finished up with a ride up the hill to our hotel, where we were all waiting with cheers and hugs. As an added bonus, we also got to meet the stray dog that had joined them on the road a couple of days before. Already loyal to Michiel and Joost, he was still sleeping on the front stoop of the hotel when I left this morning at 7am.
It's an incredibly unique group of individuals that have united in this tiny little town of Ushuaia...I expect it will be a very enlightening trip, with many lessons learned...
We set sail tomorrow afternoon...
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