The toilet is in a hole in the snow with steep, narrow steps leading down into it. One is supposed to make his deposit into a plastic bag and then carry the bag topside to leave in a container. We are told that when they set up this camp a couple of weeks ago, conditions were so horrible that they lost several shelters while trying to put them up. By the time the camp was established they had lost about half their provisions, so the meals are rather dull. There are coffee and tea to drink.
Lunch is exactly the same.
Dinner is a soup, followed by ground beef over noodles or a chicked leg over rice. Apparently a journalist came along on one of the flights. He saw Nomad near the runway, just standing still, and spread the story that it was frozen and could not endure Antarctic conditions. We set up more individual tents today. Pascal, Liam and I met the air officers today and discussed our side trip.