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Inspiring Explorers™ live up to their name

December 20, 2021 - Inspiring Explorers™, AR App, Expedition Updates, Alumni, Antarctic Blog, Encourage, News Story, Share

Inspiring the spirit of exploration in the next generation is one of the primary goals of the My Explorer Journal experience on the Antarctic Heritage Trust’s new AR app.

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The Creation of My Explorer Journal

September 20, 2021 - Inspiring Explorers™, AR App, Expedition Updates, Alumni, Antarctic Blog, Encourage, News Story, Share

In this blog, we hear from Anzac Gallate, a member of the Antarctic Heritage Trust’s 2020 Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ to the Antarctic Peninsula, who is the creative visionary behind My Explorer Journal.

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Resilient, skilled, adventurous: the search for young explorers to open New Zealand’s new mountain traverse

May 3, 2021 - Inspiring Explorers™, Expedition Updates, Inspiring Explorers' Expeditions™, Media Releases, News Story

AHT is searching for five young New Zealanders to be part of the first official expedition to cross the country’s new world-class ski route.

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Paddling in Worsley’s Wake

December 19, 2021 - Inspiring Explorers™, Expedition Updates, Encourage, News Story

In November, the Trust brought together twenty students from around Canterbury, New Zealand had the opportunity to follow in Frank Worsley’s footsteps.

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The Frozen Wild

December 12, 2019 - Inspiring Explorers™, 2019 Expedition Updates, Alumni, Media Releases, News Story

In March 2019, Marco de Kretser travelled to the Antarctic Peninsula as a member of Antarctic Heritage Trust’s fourth Inspiring Explorers’ Expedition.
This expedition offered the young explorers a chance to push themselves, to connect with experts, and learn about Antarctica’s history, science, wildlife, and environment, as well as the legacy of exploration in Antarctica.

Marco recorded the sounds of Antarctica’s frozen wild—the ice cracking, the birds shrieking—in order to bring those sounds back to the studio and create music inspired by the brutal, desolate, gargantuan landscapes. Marco wanted to create an interplay between the smaller details and larger saws and strings to mimic the nature of the Antarctic environment.

Here is that music:

Marco also used the sounds he recorded in Antarctica to compose a soundscape, which accompanies a photographic exhibition in collaboration with Alexander Hillary, who was also a member of the expedition. Experience that exhibition here.

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Summit inspires youth to learn more about the Antarctic

September 20, 2019 - Inspiring Explorers™, Inspiring Explorers' Expeditions™, Media Releases, News Story, Uncategorized
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University student helps make exploration of Antarctica possible – from anywhere in the world

April 9, 2021 - Inspiring Explorers™, AR App, Alumni, Media Releases, News Story

Since Anzac’s return from the Antarctic Peninsula he has spent a year creating an explorer journal.

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Introducing the 2020 Inspiring Explorers’ Expeditions™ Team

February 12, 2020 - Inspiring Explorers™, 2020 Expedition Updates, Inspiring Explorers' Expeditions™, Media Releases, News Story

It is with much excitement that we can now announce the team that will be heading to the Antarctic Peninsula next month on our 2020 Inspiring Explorers’ Expedition with Olympic kayaker Mike Dawson!

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Trip of a Lifetime for Two Auckland Students

October 26, 2018 - Inspiring Explorers™, Inspiring Explorers'™ Updates - 2019, Media Releases

As part of a new partnership with Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate, Antarctic Heritage Trust is taking two Year 13 students kayaking in Antarctica with a kiwi Olympian.

Mele Fetu’u and Lana Kiddie-Vai will be on the Trust’s fourth Inspiring Explorers’ Expedition™ in early 2019.

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Mele Fetu’u & Lana Kiddie-Vai

The team will travel to the Antarctic Peninsula from South America aboard a One Ocean Expeditions vessel as part of a scheduled expedition.

Olympic kayaker Mike Dawson with Mele Fetu’u and Lana Kiddie-Vai

Trust Executive Director Nigel Watson, who will lead the expedition, says it will be an unforgettable experience.

“Antarctica has the power to change lives. As well as exploring that magnificent place and learning about the legacy we care for, our Inspiring Explorers will go kayaking under the mentoring of Olympian Mike Dawson and the One Ocean Expeditions’ team. We are very excited.”

More young people aged between 18-30 will also be on the expedition… they are currently being selected from hundreds of applications nationwide.

Nigel Watson says the Trust and Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate have a special connection.

“The school cares for Sir Edmund’s former home in New Zealand (which is now a leadership centre on the Collegiate’s grounds) and the Trust cares for his former home in Antarctica. We share a genuine sense of kaitiakitanga for Sir Edmund’s legacy.”

AHT Executive Director Nigel Watson speaking to guests at the partnership event at Hillary House Leadership Centre.

Nigel and Olympic kayaker and youth ambassador Mike Dawson met the students for the first time last week, at an event held at Hillary House, to celebrate the partnership between the Trust and the Collegiate. Mike says it was a special moment meeting Mele and Lana.

“To get to meet these amazing young people and their families inside the study of Sir Ed’s old home, with members of the Hillary family there, felt pretty special.”

SEHC Senior School Principal Dr Peter Uys and AHT Board Chair Mark Stewart

Lana says the reality of going to Antarctica for the first time is already starting to set in for the two Collegiate students.

“I’m really excited but I’m also a bit nervous. It’s going to be so cold! But that is all what makes it an adventure.”

Through sponsorship provided by the Woolf Fisher Trust, the Trust is also bringing a young teacher from the Collegiate on the expedition. The teacher will be announced along with the rest of the expedition participants in early 2019.

This is the Trust’s fourth Inspiring Explorers’ Expedition™ following a crossing of South Georgia in 2015, the summiting of Mt Scott in 2017, and the successful 560km crossing of the Greenland ice cap earlier this year. The Trust is partnering with One Ocean Expeditions for the 2019 expedition.

AHT Board Chair Mark Stewart, Lana Kiddie-Vai, AHT Executive Director Nigel Watson, Mele Fetu’u and Mike Dawson

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Inspiring Explorers Complete Greenland Ice Cap Crossing

June 5, 2018 - Inspiring Explorers™, Media Releases, News Story

They’ve done it! The Inspiring Explorers have completed the epic crossing of the Greenland ice cap

They’ve battled hurricane conditions, heavy snowfalls and illness, but the 6-person Antarctic Heritage Trust Inspiring Explorers’ Expedition has reached the finish line of their 560-kilometre crossing of the Greenland ice cap.

They made the journey on skis while pulling 60-kilogram supply sleds behind them.

The New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust selected four young explorers for the expedition from a pool of nearly 200 applicants. Two Kiwis; Brando Yelavich (24) and Hollie Woodhouse (33) and two Australians; Bridget Kruger (30) and Keith Parsons (28). They were joined by AHT Executive Director Nigel Watson and Ousland Polar Exploration master polar guide Bengt Rotmo.

Keith Parsons

Bridget, Hollie, Brando and Keith after reaching the east coast of Greenland

The team left the west coast of Greenland on May 4 and arrived in the small village of Tasiilaq (on Greendland’s east coast) on Saturday, 2 June. Hollie, Brando and Nigel are now enroute to New Zealand.

The crossing is the Trust’s third Inspiring Explorers’ Expedition and proved to be the most challenging one yet.

Nigel Watson says the team’s final day saw them ski for 21 hours.

“We set off at 10am. A possible polar bear sighting had us on edge, but it turned out to be an illusion! We continued to ski and eventually saw mountains – there was great excitement after seeing nothing but a flat, white horizon for weeks. We stopped for a hot meal at 1am before reaching the end of our journey at 7am – there were hugs and tears of relief.”

A helicopter then picked up the team and took them to Tasiilaq.

Hollie says arriving into the village was unbelievable.

“The relief in finishing is immense and to finally walk on solid ground after 4 weeks of skiing was a strange feeling. We stayed in a great hotel, dinner was nothing fancy but it was the best. Being warm, showered and seeing each other’s faces properly for the first time in 4 weeks was an odd experience.”

Keith says finishing the journey is bittersweet.

“On the one hand we have accomplished something rather special and momentous, but at the same time it means the end of the experience and everything that went with it: the ice, the struggle and mostly the time together with friends.”

Heading into the great white expanse of the ice cap.

Brando, who completed the first solo circumnavigation of New Zealand’s coastline, says the expedition has been tough.

“Physically my biggest challenge was my joints and my feet adjusting to the repetition and the pulling of the sled for 29 consecutive days. Mentally I was consumed by the repetition… the walking and the white were mind numbing at times. It was a great mental challenge”.

Bridget, who has worked for years as an outdoor instructor and adventure therapist all over the world, says this journey was bigger than anything she has done before.

“It was a huge journey that I was really able to delve into because I wasn’t a guide, just a client with the space to really be me and deal with the massive mental and physical challenges we faced. I’ve never done a winter expedition of this length before with this extent of conditions so it was an incredible opportunity to grow through that.

The Expedition honoured Fridtjof Nansen, the renowned polar explorer and humanitarian, who completed the first crossing of Greenland 130 years ago in 1888.

New Zealand outdoors company Kathmandu are an expedition sponsor, with the team road testing their new XT Series, designed for extreme environments.

Once home, they will begin tailored outreach programmes supported by the Trust, with the aim of sharing their experiences, and encouraging others to get out and explore.

Trust Executive Director Nigel Watson says that will be the most important part of the expedition.

“The whole reason the Trust undertakes these expeditions is to encourage people to get out and explore the amazing world we live in. By sharing their story, the team has the opportunity to inspire someone else to do something they never have before – an experience that could be life changing.”

The team take a breather for a photo after reaching the end.

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After 36-hours of gruelling travel, Shackleton, Wo After 36-hours of gruelling travel, Shackleton, Worsley and Crean successfully arrived at Stromness Whaling Station, South Georgia #OnThisDay in 1916. The men traversed what had been regarded 'inaccessible' country by whalers.

As the men prepared breakfast on their final morning, Shackleton thought he heard the sound of a whistle from the whaling station. The three ate in silence, listening for the sound. At exactly 7 am the whistle sounded again. �It was the first sound of humanity they had heard in over a year! The route towards Stromness became dramatically steep and they had to cut steps into the ice once again. A blizzard would surely have lifted them off the exposed slope, but the weather held in their favour. �Upon reaching the shore of Fortuna Bay with great difficulty, they proceeded on to what they thought was level ground, only for Crean to break straight through ice into a frozen lake up to his waist. They lay flat to distribute their weight and made their way off the fragile surface. �As they approached the whaling station, in typical gentlemanly fashion, the trio attempted to make themselves presentable. 

��"Our beards were long and our hair was matted. We were unwashed, and the garments which we had worn for nearly a year without a change were tattered and stained." - Sir Ernest Shackleton

They came across two youngsters, the first humans they had seen in nearly eighteen months, who ran away at the sight of them. The station manager, Mr Sorlle, who had entertained them when the Endurance’s crew had first arrived at Stromness, did not recognise them as they appeared on his doorstep. After recounting the details of their ordeal to the manager they were finally able to bathe, an experience that Worsley described as ‘worth all that we had been through to get’.�� Sorlle immediately arranged rescue for the men stranded at King Haakon Bay, on the other side of South Georgia. �
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📸 Crean, Shackleton and Worsley a few days after crossing the interior of South Georgia (Robert Burton Collection)�
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Antarctic Heritage Trust is in Nelson touring Sir Antarctic Heritage Trust is in Nelson touring Sir Edmund Hillary’s Antarctic hut virtual reality experience! �

Hillary’s Hut was initially used as a base for the party of 23 men engaged in exploration and important scientific research as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) and the New Zealand party of the International Geophysical Year (IGY). �Join us and step inside Sir Ed’s Antarctic hut through a new, ground-breaking virtual reality experience and find out what life was like living in the world’s most extreme environment as these men furthered science and exploration.�

�We will be in Nelson, New Zealand between 10 am and 4 pm from Wednesday 18 May to Saturday 28 May at Old St Peter's Church at Founders Park, Nelson. Bookings are now open to the public via our website, nzaht.org, link in bio. Please Allow 15min for each VR session.

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#OnThisDay in 1916, �Shackleton, Worsley and Cre #OnThisDay in 1916, �Shackleton, Worsley and Crean rose at the early hour of 2 am, prepared some hoosh and then roped themselves together taking on their journey into the unknown. Shackleton, Worsley and Crean began their traverse of South Georgia from King Haakon Bay to Stromness Whaling Station with no map. �The men had to improvise a route across mountain ranges and glaciers, with only three days worth of provisions for each man.� ���Vincent and McNeish were unfit to continue so Shackleton left McCarthy to care for them at Peggotty Camp, King Haakon Bay.���

�In 2015, �The Trust chose three Inspiring Explorers™ to make the crossing of South Georgia and mark the centenary of this famous expedition!��

📸 Crossing South Georgia (C) Tom McTavish/ AHT
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If you are in Nelson and want to explore Sir Edmun If you are in Nelson and want to explore Sir Edmund Hillary’s Antarctic hut through a new, ground-breaking virtual reality experience, then this is the opportunity for you!

Antarctic Heritage Trust is excited to announce we are visiting Nelson, New Zealand. We will be there between 10 am and 4 pm from Friday 20 May to Saturday 28 May at Old St Peter's Church at Founders Park, Nelson. Bookings are now open to the public via our website, nzaht.org, link in bio. Please Allow 15min for each VR session.

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Check out our new blog 'I must visit this place' a Check out our new blog 'I must visit this place' as part of a series written by the Trust's Digital Collections Team. Digital Collections Technician, Mark Sanders explains the catalyst for his first (of many) ‘I must visit this place!’ moments while working to catalogue the Trust’s image assets in an online database.

Mark's introduction to the work he would be undertaking came in the form of images from the Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ to the Antarctic Peninsula in 2019. Mark said, "Seeing these incredibly talented young people adventuring far outside their comfort zone, through the amazing images they captured, was a privilege that I gushed to my friends and family about from the outset".

To read more and see some of the incredible photos that have inspired Mark so far, follow the link in bio to our website, nzaht.org

📸 Inspiring Explorers Expedition™ team members sharing a moment with a whale, Antarctic Peninsula 2019. Credit: AHT/ Marco de Kretser
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#OnThisDay in 1930, Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian exp #OnThisDay in 1930, Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, renowned scientist, statesman, diplomat and humanitarian, died of a heart attack. Today, Nansen's home is an institute with his office left largely untouched. His desk chair is turned toward the window, facing the only direction Nansen ever knew—forward.

Nansen is famously known for leading a team of six on the first crossing of the Greenland ice cap in 1888 and achieving a farthest North record of 86°14′ during his North Pole expedition 1893-1896. Following WW1, Nansen also famously organised the repatriation of over 400,000 prisoners of war and in 1922 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian efforts.

Nansen's legacy of polar travel, equipment and clothing innovation and travel techniques influenced a generation of Arctic and Antarctic explorers, including Shackleton, Scott, and Amundsen.

📸 Portrait of Nansen aged 27, the year he crossed Greenland (1888) © Unknown
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#OnThisDay in 1937, Cecil Henry Meares, chief dog #OnThisDay in 1937, Cecil Henry Meares, chief dog handler and Russian interpreter on Scott's British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition 1910-13, died in British Columbia, Canada.

Meares was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland in 1877. An adventurer and linguist, he began to travel extensively at the age of nineteen in Europe and Asia. He was a fur-trader in Kamchatka and Okhotsk in Siberia, a British army officer who fought in the Boer war, and was an observer in the Russo-Japanese War and a surveyor in Manchuri. After his service, Meares resumed his adventures in the Far East and travelled to a number of little visited places such as Tibet. Eventually he returned to England and volunteered for Scott's Antarctic 'Terra Nova' expedition.

Meares was responsible for purchasing dogs and ponies for Scott in Siberia. He was assisted by the dog driver Demetri Gerof who also was recruited for the expedition. Both Meares and Gerof were members of the support party, which accompanied Scott's Polar Party as far as the lower depot of the Beardmore Glacier, before turning back on 11 December 1911. Meares is commemorated by Meares Cliff along the north coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

📸 Cecil Henry Meares by Herbert Ponting © National Portrait Gallery, London
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A cross was erected on Observation Hill in January A cross was erected on Observation Hill in January 1913 in memory of Scott and his men that died in 1912 in pursuit of the Pole. This still stands overlooking Scott Base and McMurdo Sound. Located at the summit of Observation Hill, it is a popular walking route for locals. 

AHT has developed a temporary cover for the cross, installed over winter to protect the eroding inscription from the worst of the harsh winter winds, abrasive scoria and ice. After the last flight left, we waited several weeks for a day with no wind to install the cover. We carried a ladder, and put the cover in a back pack with a hot water bottle to keep it supple in the cold. Though not high, the walk is challenging due to the loose scree slopes and exposure to the cold winds that greet you as you reach the summit. 

The installation was challenging due to the cold temperatures, not to mention gloves sticking to Velcro, but with a little persistence we managed to get it on and secured for winter. It was worth the challenge to enjoy the beautiful views across the Transantarctic Mountains in the winter twilight. 

📸 The team after installing the cross cover (Nigel Hyde). Carrying ladder and cross cover up Observation Hill. The cross cover installed. Descending Observation Hill with view of McMurdo. (Jane Hamill/AHT).
Antarctic Heritage Trust invites you to join us on Antarctic Heritage Trust invites you to join us online for A Musical Journey to Antarctica, featuring five compositions by Inspiring Explorer Ihlara McIndoe accompanied by stunning visuals of Antarctica captured by renowned Antarctic filmmaker and photographer Anthony Powell.

�Register for the livestream event, this Thursday 12 May between 6:00-7:15 pm NZST by visiting our website; link in bio. �Once you register, you �will receive the livestream link via email to watch A Musical Journey to Antarctica with Antarctic Heritage Trust Inspiring Explorer Ihlara McIndoe. You will also receive email reminders about the concert and an e-programme. ���If you are unable to join us in real-time for the livestream, you can also watch it at a time that suits you on our website nzaht.org (from Monday 16 May).

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