Uuuuggghhhh, another delay, this one is much longer. Sounds like Patriot Hills, our destination in Antartica, received 22cm of snow the past few days and they will need some time to clear the runway (once it stops snowing). The runway, by the way, is simply a smooth patch of ice where we will land, nothing so convienient as a terminal there.
It will probably be Thursday until we have any chance to go. They will work hard to get it ready becuase there are still some climbers and others stranded down there until the plane can get in.
We have decided to take a trip to the national park here (4-6 hour drive) and see some penguins and glaciers. Ten of us decided to rent a van and make the trek. Promises to be quite the international van so it should be a good place to bring up politics and religion or any other sensitive subject. The group of people going are actually very easy going (you would have to be to voluntarily go to the South Pole and run a marathon).
The delay is making another runner (Don from the US) kinda nervous as he is on his final marathon of the 7 continents and if we get delayed over 5 days he will miss his window of getting into the Guiness Book of World Records as the quickest run of all 7 continents (the record is 30 days now I think).
This sitting around waiting is the hardest part so far, as it is windy and rainy here.
Will try and update from the road if access is available.
