Blazing Ice (47 page)

Sievert, Richard,
96

Silverton, Colorado,
256

Skelton Glacier,
12
,
142
,
285

Smith, Scotty-Bob,
261
,
263
–64

snow swamp, descriptions of on RIS,
117
,
121
–22; descriptions of on Polar Plateau,
234

South Pole Comms,
247
–48,
255
,
275

South Pole Investigative Traverse (SPIT),
10
,
14
–15,
41

South Pole Station, description of,
259
–61

Spenser, Edmund (
The Faerie Queene
),
125

spreader bar sled, description of,
184

Stevens, Wallace (“Anecdote of the Jar”),
253
–54

Stokstad, Robert,
19

Stone, Brian,
30
–32,
57
–58

Summit Camp, Greenland,
225

Support Force Antarctica,
9

Sutherland, Al,
235
–37,
239

synthetic aperture radar,
103

Szundy, Matthew,
109
,
123
–27

Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR),
22
,
28
–29

Transantarctic Mountains,
14
,
106
,
112
,
123
,
135
,
150
,
188
,
196
,
199
,
243
,
280
,
285
; salient of,
285

True Grit Café,
6
,
220

Truesdell, Buddy,
96

Uhde, Kim “Bwana,”
61
–63,
66
–73,
75
–76,
78
–80,
84
–90,
179

U.S. Geological Survey Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names,
206

U.S. Merchant Marine tanker,
26

U.S. Navy,
9

U.S. Navy Seabee,
23

Vaitonis, Carol,
250
,
284
,
289

Vaitonis, Richard “Stretch,”
42
,
49
–53,
56
,
78
–79,
94
,
96
,
98
–99,
102
,
104
–5,
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,
109
–10,
115
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118
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,
126
,
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135
,
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,
144
,
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–54,
170
,
173
–74,
177
,
179
,
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184
–86,
188
–89,
195
–99,
203
–6,
208
–10,
219
–24,
226
,
228
,
234
,
237
–44,
245
–47,
249
–57,
266
–68,
272
,
274
–75,
281
,
284
–85,
289

Van Vlack, John “John V.,”
173
,
179
,
181
,
184
,
187
–89,
195
,
198
,
202
–5,
207
,
210
,
222
–223,
234
,
237
–38,
242
,
248
,
251
,
254
–55,
257
–58,
267
–68,
272
,
274
,
278
–83

Walker, Jessica,
139

Watson, Dave,
25
,
267

Weale, Jason,
33
,
37
,
96

Weather Forecaster Bill “Wx Bill,”
224
–25

Wells, H. G. (
A Short History of the World
),
187

West, Peter,
130

Wheat, Steve,
193
–94,
201
,
225

Wheater, Brian,
3
–5,
9
,
13
,
50
,
52
,
174
,
179
,
220

White Island,
59
,
188
,
284

Whitmore, Megan,
260
–61

Williams Field,
3
–4,
17
,
41
,
58
,
95
–96,
98
,
110
,
134
,
162
,
165
,
179
–80,
192
,
289
–90

Yankielun, Norbert,
102
–5,
108
–9,
118
–21

John H. Wright
began his career in the underground mines of the American West as a mining geologist and hard rock miner. With the closing of the western frontier he headed south to Antarctica, serving first as an explosives engineer, then later driving a tunnel in the ice beneath the South Pole. Because of his record in service to the United States Antarctic Program executing dangerous, difficult jobs with an impeccable record for safety and achievement, he was selected to lead the historic South Pole Traverse Proof-of-Concept Project. He is honored to tell its story.