For easy eating, the bars have been broken into bite size chunks. Bags containing the chocolate bars for the resupply are pictured above. After dinner they have more cocoa or tea. That's what Liv and Ann eat on a typical day. Not much variety, but lots of calories.
Many people think of Antarctica as a flat place at a low altitude.
As we've learned from our friend Katy Jensen at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, because the atmosphere is thinner at the poles than at the equator, the effect of the altitude on people at the South Pole is even greater. In other words, to humans the altitude at the Pole of 9,300 feet above sea level feels like 10,832 feet would feel at the equator. Ann reports that both she and Liv had headaches from the altitude after yesterday's sailing. If you've been following our interactive map carefully, you may have noticed that the numbers have changed a little bit. Ann and Liv have travelled each day.