Stories and Interviews
"You’ve got to keep your engine speed up. You have to route find, and look for crevasses, at speed. You can’t go slowly and reconnoiter, because you have to keep the engine power up just to keep going. But I just kept it up, and gradually it began to get steeper and steeper, and it finally got to the point with the snowmobile where you can keep climbing, but you can also come straight down."
"It was January, I was walking around in a t-shirt, I had a suntan, nothing else on but a t-shirt and jeans, I wore little booty socks running around working. Whales, seals, baby penguins, great food, but I couldn't stand it. I hated Palmer."
"Antarctica prepared me for the War Zones, a stepping stone which made the transition to Iraq a little bit easier."
"For some reason, people can’t get enough of disco clothes here. They are a source of infinite delight."
"Everyone had a theory for what we were doing, and a lot of people felt threatened for sure."
"Last year, two of my "teeth of wisdom" were removed by a dental surgeon and those teeth were after that disinfected and sealed in a bag."
"If you do not know how to pray before you become a pilot, you tend to learn quickly."
"American employees told us later that they had been told to stay away from us and not to talk to us."
"Instead of feeling bloated and lazy, you are hungry and sharp. You are balanced between things which strengthen and weaken you."