The conservation management plan, from which the works plan to ensure the stability of the huts will be determined, is being developed through a comprehensive process of consultation over the next few weeks and will be available on this web site when complete. The team will live in tents and eat mainly re-constituted freeze dried food. They will be expected to work long hours and co-exist in cramped conditions with limited communication, Mr Easther says. Most members of the team will be volunteers who will also be expected to share in domestic communal duties. The toilet is a frozen bucket which has to be emptied.
All water comes from melting snow and ice which has to be collected.
The team put a new roof cladding on the workshop section of the main hut, rehung the front door and carried out repairs to structural members inside the living section of the hut. The AAP Mawson's Huts Foundation 1997.