Approaching the Lemaire Channel

February 2, 1994

Approach to the Lemaire Channel

9:00am

We are passing through the Lemaire Channel right now, and it is very beautiful. We have a perfectly clear day, and the mountains along the Channel on both sides are made of some very interesting rock. On the left (the continent side), we passed a twin-peaked mountain, named "Eunice's Tits" after a barmaid from Candide, if I'm not mistaken, by the British Antarctic Survey team when they passed by it going north. At least, that's what Lars-Eric told us...

"Eunice's Tits"

Immediately after Eunice's Tits, again on the continent side, there is a very tall, narrow, singular peak. When taking it's picture, I noticed that the camera just doesn't seem able to capture the magnitude of the peak. No matter what I do, the camera seems to shrink the peak into a reasonable size, while in reality, the peak is most unreasonably high, towering over us so that one has to crane one's neck upward to view the peak, and making it difficult to focus on the whole thing all at once. Of course, part of this is simply caused by the fact that we're so close, because of the narrowness of the channel, but it still appears immense.

A tall peak on the approach to the Lemaire Channel

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