"Training"

Sometimes training feel like simply having fun.  If you think about university or school for instance you wonder whether training or fun enjoys priority.  Well today, fortunately, I had such a training session.  Seeing that we are surrounded by ice we probably need to learn how to move over it so we were taught how to walk with crampons, use an ice pick, secure a rope in ice and how to belay and ascend a rope on a steep icy incline.  It was a very well received break from life on base as the four walls started feeling a bit cramped.  It was great fun to roll and slide on the slope learning how to arrest your descent with the use of an ice pick.  We are being spoiled by immaculate weather at the moment so we tend to forget what the dangers and risks are of this continent.  Towards the end of our day however we were shown what a smallish crevasse looks like.  It is scary to think that this amazing amount of snow that would seem like an absolute playground for snowboarders or mountaineers are riddled with cracks up to 100's of meters deep, all of which could end your fun very abruptly.