We spend the evening working with our data and, if there is time, take in a movie. It is one of the most amazing sights I have ever seen. When the helicopter set down in Bull Pass, everything around me looked like another planet. Aside from Dr. Bruce Marsh and the other three members of the team, absolutely nothing living could be seen. I felt as if I had stepped back to a primordial earth.
Life is needed to produce soil .
It was an alien world, with no visible aliens. In this realm of eternal winter they look like summer. The Valleys are a Shangri La hidden deep within the Transanarctic Mountains, almost completely unknown until the 1950's. They are so new to humankind's knowledge that I felt like pioneer there. I felt privileged to be among the few to venture into the little known land and to sometimes walk where none have walked before.