Category: Newsletter

October was dominated by my preparation to leave early at the end of the month to interview to be an Astronaut with NASA. Spoiler alert: I ended up not being able to make it in person and staying instead to mid-November at the South Pole. But I’ll tell this story from the perspective of someone Read More …

Postcards have been sent. Final count: US 236 postcards, International 84 postcards. Whew! Please tweet a photo of you with the postcard to @corbett when you receive your postcard, hopefully within the next month. The post office doesn’t have any more opening hours while I’m here, so I’m unable to take any additional requests for Read More …

Thank you to everyone who contacted me with your address! I have over 200 postcards to send and will be preparing them today. Unfortunately, I’m unable to take additional addresses to send postcards to at this stage–I mentioned replying within 5 days to my original email. If you’ve signed up for the newsletter since then Read More …

Do you want a postcard from the South Pole? Reply to this message with your address in the next 5 days and expect one in the mail! We’re about 800 subscribers now, and my goal was 1,000 by the end of my long stay, so feel free to forward to others interested in reading more Read More …

Last we spoke we were in the middle of a medevac, which was highly successful.  The plane was parket on slats to prevent it from freezing to the ice: Here are a few collected articles on the medevac: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/south-pole-rescue-pilots-it-was-dark-cold-and-no-big-deal/2016/07/05/313c76c4-42ff-11e6-a76d-3550dba926ac_story.html http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/south-pole-rescue-all-in-a-day-s-work-for-kenn-borek-air-crew-1.2974034 http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/emergency-rescue-launched-ill-worker-south-pole https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=138914 In addition to the patients making it out safely (primary mission), we got Read More …

Update: the medical evacuation mission is proceeding as planned, with a few minor delays. This Washington Post Article has a few more public details. I hope to be able to share an insider’s perspective as I am permitted. With the medevac mission proceeding as planned, crew morale is still high. This issue is about our midwinter Read More …

The first medical evacuation flight to the South Pole station in the middle of winter has been launched. I cannot share more details at this time due to patient and pilot privacy, but I can share that I am personally safe. I hope to be able to share more details of the rescue in the future, and especially Read More …

Sorry for the mishap last month where you got my newsletter 3x. I hope to not reproduce that issue again! In this newsletter I’ll merge April and May. The days in these months started to merge together somewhat, due to the routine of living in a station in the middle of a beautifully desolate continent Read More …

Welcome new subscribers!  This month we had over 100 new subscribers! We’re now well over 500 Antarctica interested folks. As always, feel free to forward to friends and family who might like to follow. I hope to get up to 1000 interested friends, family, and friends of family/friends by the end of the year.  The month of Read More …