A photo of Aconcagua from the airline into Santiago. At 22841 feet, it's the highest mountain in the Americas.

The view from my hotel room in Santiago at sunset, with the Andes in the distance to the left.

Sunrise over the Andes heading south from Santiago to Punta Arenas

a volcano we flew over about an hour south of Santiago

All the flight lines I was on during the 2012 Antarctic campaign

NASA's DC-8 awaiting take off on the first day of Antarctic operations

Flight: Thwaites Grounding Line 2

the DC-8 in the final stages of prep for its first flight

Flight: Thwaites Grounding Line 2

The view out the window from my seat before taxiing

Flight: Thwaites Grounding Line 2

Seawater flowing out of a lead between icebergs, covered in a snow bridge

Flight: Thwaites Grounding Line 2

View of the edge of Thwaites Glacier

Flight: Thwaites Grounding Line 2

The edge of Thwaites Glacier during our decent to the main science line

Grease ice (extremely thin sea ice) floating on the open water

Flight: Thwaites Grounding Line 2

Katabatic winds blowing snow off of Thwaites Glacier, out over open water

Flight: Thwaites Grounding Line 2

Large tabular icebergs, recently broken off the Thwaites ice tongue

Flight: Thwaites Grounding Line 2

Large tabular icebergs just off the Thwaites ice tongue

Flight: Thwaites Grounding Line 2

The new IceBridge mascot, all strapped in for safety

Flight: Thwaites Grounding Line 2

View of the broken Thwaites Ice Tongue

Flight: Thwaites Grounding Line 2

Christy (Project Manager) and Michael (Project Scientist), hard at work on the DC-8 over Thwaites Glacier

Flight: Thwaites Grounding Line 2

Christy walking off the DC-8 after the first successful flight of this campaign

Flight: Thwaites Grounding Line 2

Sea ice and clouds over the Bellingshausen Sea

Flight: Sea Ice Bellingshausen 1

Consolidated sea ice floes in the Bellingshausen Sea

Flight: Sea Ice Bellingshausen 1

Along the flight we re-cross back over the Thwaites ice sheet "tongue" that we flew near yesterday

Flight: Sea Ice Bellingshausen 1

The edge of the thick calving front of Thwaites Glacier

Flight: Sea Ice Bellingshausen 1

A lead in the pack ice that is starting to freeze over

Flight: Sea Ice Bellingshausen 1