For me, Tara was more of an exploration than a hard scientific expedition.
A huge thanks to the Chinese & @AusAntarctic for all their hard work!," expedition leader Chris Turney tweeted.
The beginning is almost the hardest part of any expedition – watching that plane vanish, taking those first steps on a trip that no one has succeeded in completing, is a shock to the system.
You never know what, or when, is going to be the hardest point of an expedition.
In the months before departure, funds for the expedition became harder to acquire.
Thinning sea ice in the Arctic may make expedition logistics harder, but there is a — perhaps sad — flip side.
On Sunday morning, Enrique Ramón from Miglis tells me he's unable to join me for the hard-currency-supermarket beef expedition, so I head out to Centro Comercial Palco without him.
Most Americans — even here in Pueblo, where Pike and his fellow soldier-explorers camped in 1806 during their Southwestern expedition — would be hard pressed to associate him with anything other than the mountain.
The changes to the front structure make the long Expedition's engine options hard to predict.
While some touring companies pledged to carry on with the planned expeditions, that may be hard to do as more guides join calls for a general boycott.
