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Posted by Bill S on January 10, 2007 at 7:58:44 am EST
In reply to Re: Climbers and attitudes posted by Jim S on January 9, 2007 at 10:19:52 pm EST

No, Jim, not a DC9, it was a DC6. Some years back, when the blue ice landing strip was discovered (you can land with wheeled aircraft on blue ice, skis not needed), they flew in Hercs, DC3's, DC4's, and the DC6. One trip, the DC6 set down in a whiteout abt 6 miles short of the airstrip. Since then, it has gradually been covered with drifting snow, so that the top 5 feet of the tail is all that is still showing - and the tail is white, which makes it hard to find against the white snow and on the overcast day I went looking. I didn´t have a working GPSr, so it was a bit difficult to locate, but I did find it. The planes that went in and out while we were there were an Ilyushin 76 (our plane), a small Antonov, the local twin otters, two Bell helicopters, and two Russian MI-18 helicopters (supposedly private, but painted in camo).

Dave, we had wine to substitute for the beer. But Chilean white (blanco) is nowhere as good as their red. But watch out for the Ukrainian "cognac" - something like 80 or 90 proof.

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