As technology improves and the world becomes smaller, unexplored places in the world has become less and less, but in reverse, wild places becomes more accessible. Antarctica remains one of the few unspoiled areas of land, a continent that desolate landscape of ice and rock, beautiful to look at, difficult to reach.If you are a tourist and you're tired of Bangkok and Jamaica and the French Riviera then a visit to Antarctica would add a little spice to your travels.The easiest way to visit Antarctica is to join a cruise ship, which takes you to the edge of the continent, and let you see the ice and play on the boundaries between seals.But penguins and Antarctica is a vast continent, and to get into the only practical way for tourists is to go through the air, and go through the air the only people who can go Antarctica is the Logistics and Expeditions, or soda. ALE is the descendant of the ANI, Adventure Network International, the company formed in 1984 by Giles Kershaw. Giles was an experienced pilot of Antarctica (having flown for five seasons with the British Antarctic Survey and then help Ranulph Fiennes and Charles Burton I in the Transglobe Expedition from 1979 to 1982) when he was approached by two wealthy climbers wanted to climb the highest peak top of Antarctica, the Vinson Massif. They succeeded, and since Kershaw was in the business of Antarctic tourism. They found a place to land aircraft on wheels, a stretch of blue ice-free due to soft snow of a mountain called Patriot Hills where they could establish a base from which one could reach the rest of the continent by the skiplane, Giles Kershaw died in a gyrocopter crash in 1990, but his wife Anne continued to work until the company was sold to Grand Expeditions in 2003. Grand Expeditions in their inexperience could not make things work, and announced that there would be no flights to Antarctica for the 2003-2004 season. This was a disaster for the people who had been planning expeditions. Upon entering the rape was a group of former employees of the ANI, gaining the experience of Mike Sharp. ALE ANI later bought Grand Expeditions and now runs as subsidiary.ALE package tour company, may have to visit the South Pole, or to increase Vinson. I'd recommend against these visits. Vinson is primarily a three-day, very cold, walking uphill and most of the time you're waiting for the weather to clear so that you can fly from Patriot Hills and back Vinson.The South Pole is an industrial complex on the plateau polar. Science is very interesting, but the scenery is boring, it is overwhelmingly cold, and a place in the polar plateau is much like any other. If you are interested in wildlife, not to visit the Emperor penguin colony at the Dawson-Lambton Glacier with a professional ornithologist. ALE will get you there at the peak of the breeding season. At the time sea ice has retreated enough for cruise ships to reach the colonies of penguins penguin chicks are half-grown, and much of the activity dispersed.The other colony I can recommend is Antarctic tour of a week of skiing around the Ellsworth Mountains. This would give a good experience of Antarctica, camping at "night" and eat rations cooked frozen sled in his tent and ski 'days' through spectacular mountain ranges and ice fly valleys.If ALE Antarctica, that'll do it from Punta Arenas, Chile's southernmost city, located in the Strait of Magellan. While you're there you might want to visit the penguin colony at Seno Otway, or visit the Torres del Paine, a great number of peaks.You may have to do this because the weather in Antarctica is not often leads to fly, and is usually not enough wind on the wrong runway, or too much snow or it's too cloudy. But the people of ALE maintains constant vigilance over time, and as soon as conditions are suitable, the flight will be called.At Punta Arenas Airport you'll board an Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft, operated by a Russian crew. These aircraft are used for heavy operations worldwide, and crews have thousands of hours of experience in the type.You ll 'be collected by bus from the hotel, and you will be dressed in cold climate gears, because where you get off the airport property will not building.The heated in the plane is not like an airliner. This is a cargo plane, but designed to have accommodation for 50 or more paratroopers. There is a row of benches on each side of the plane, and probably will be sitting with your feet together with the load, which will be tied on the floor of the cellar. There will be oxygen masks in case of depressurization, and life jackets and seat belts, as in a normal airliner, but the procedures are different, so pay attention to the instructions of the loadmaster.There not much to see in within the aircraft hold, for the portholes are high on the sides of the aircraft, but if you have the time, ask the head of charge if the browser can see the nose of the aircraft. It has windows on the ground, and offers one of the best views of the landscape below an aircraft. However, do not be disappointed if you can not see anything: In this part of the world is known for its bad weather, and most likely only be able to see a layer of clouds. If you are lucky you will see the icebergs that float in the Drake Passage or later, all the bright white ice of Antarctica flight cap.During ALE staff prepares fresh sandwiches for you to eat it to their liking as they go from hotel to airport and the aircraft will have taken a couple of hours and any food that might have had to be a memory long forgotten. The flight will last approximately four hours, so once they have eaten, relax, read a book, or try to get some sleep. You can even find a soft spot for landing cargo nap.For be tied to his seat again, so will not be able to see anything. (He sits on the nose is prohibited and is not recommended because it is only glass and will be a death trap in case of an accident.) The plane will land on the ice, which offers very little friction wheel landing gear, and as the plane slows down and can no longer be led by the helm, the move could be a little brusque management and pilots of the plane by differential thrust engines. Then there will be a long shoot, and that the aircraft back from the end of the runway in the discharge position. Be patient, and stay seated. The ice that is being shot is not smooth, and a blow could easily pull their feet. Finally the plane come to a standstill, and the doors will open. It will be daylight outside, no matter what the clock says it is, because during the flight that have crossed the Antarctic Circle, and now you're in the land of the midnight sun. The weather will be good, because if I would not be flying. You must meet ALE staff that will guide the rear of the plane, loading ramp, and on the ice. You breathe the cold air, cold, you are squinting against the glare of the ice, you will feel the crisis of snow underfoot, and you know you are having an affair.
