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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-51333191/could-you-handle-the-most-remote-campsite-on-earth

I am surprised the tents are so far away from each other. seems like they want their privacy even up there?


why in line rather than in a circle?

And the loo tent with a long frozen.......

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My most remote camp was on the Lydden ice rise (aka Christmas Box Hill), here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-74.2821 ... !1e3?hl=en
(on top of the ridge across the middle). It was about 200 km from base.

The tents are normally positioned in a line (perpendicular to the wind) so that one tent doesn't cause drifts across another.
If they are too close together, the increase in wind between the tents scours out the snow more, and then you are looking at wind getting under the edge.

We didn't have a loo tent - you just took a shovel and dug a hole (left out the door towards the skidoos, drinking water snow coming from the right of the door). Wielding the bog paper could be a bit difficult, as when it's -30 in a 20 mph wind, you only retain feeling in your fingers for 20 sec or so. The groundsheets weren't sewn in, and if the weather got really out of hand, you'd lift the groundsheet and dig the hole inside.
That never happened to me, but the BC at my first base had spent 4 days holed up in 150+ mph winds (strong enough that the Skidoo blew away, though not very far)