Halley Bay - 1972

• IH tractor "Paul" rescued from hinge zone crevasse by Blackwell, Bury, Fletcher and Ramage. For pictures and more details, see below and here.
• Piano salvaged from Halley-1 by Iain Campbell and helpers. I don't think anyone knew how to tune it. See below.
• Professor Tom Kaiser (Sheffield University) visited the base in January. More
• Hobbits dog team lost in crevasse fall in the hinge zone, while reconnoitring a route to the Shackleton Mountains.

Pictures

Base photo:

R Loan - T Stoneham - T Thomas - R Daynes - I Bury - B Blackwell - P Jones - P Brangham - N Eddleston J Donaldson - G Ramage - J Flick - G Devine - K Acheson - T Jackson - D Fletcher - A Smith - B Jenkins (inset at top: D Habgood - T Boyt - K Stewardson - I Campbell)

Picture by Norman Eddleston

Alternative version

Tractor recovery team:

The IH tractor recovery team (left to right): Gordon Ramage, Dave Fletcher, Bruce Blackwell, Ian Bury. More.

Picture by Gordon Ramage

Golfing pictures, taken 12 December 1972

Oral History Recordings

• Dave Fletcher
• Gordon Ramage
• Andy Smith

Other information, anecdotes etc.

Iain Campbell:

The piano was recovered from Halley 1 and painted by Tony Jackson and myself. We spent two weekends digging it out; then towed it back to base in the dark but got lost on the way. I don't quite know how but we finished up back at Halley 1 before getting the direction right. I always thought there was something a bit surreal about two blokes towing a piano on a sledge in the middle of the Antarctic. [13 June 2006]

The Halley Underground Sign by John Flick

Free running in a caboose by Iain Campbell

1972 Splode (Midwinter magazine)

Halley 1972 scans. Includes (includes Midwinter menu and all Splode editions - plus a few extras), courtesy of Norman Eddleston and Tony Jackson

Audio cassette, June 1972

Audio tape 1972 (with one section from 1971)

Links

• Professor Tom Kaiser at Halley Bay, January 1972
• Andy Smith
• Dave Fletcher
• Energy requirements of antarctic sledge dogs, Campbell and Donaldson

Summer 1971-72

Stuart Lawrence says:

1971/1972 First visit by Self together with Chris Elliott; travelled in style from Ship to Base seated on deck chairs on a BAS Cargo Sledge. Every visit thereafter provided responsibilities, pleasures (illicit ski-doo rides), challenges, problems and rewards which convinced me to stay with BAS until retirement in 2003. Many thanks to all at BAS HQ, Halley, and all Bases for my myriad of memories. [24 April 2014]