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A man wearing a dark beanie and blue-green winter jacket stands outdoors in snowy, mountainous terrain near the South Pole, looking into the distance under bright daylight.

David Rootes

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David visited Antarctica for the first time in 1976 with the British Antarctic Survey. After serving as Station Manager for BAS until 1984, he went on to earn a Master’s Degree in Polar Studies at Cambridge. Now he manages all of the environmental logistics and permitting for our operation as…
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A smiling older man with graying hair wears a light blue Columbia shirt outdoors, trees and greenery blurred behind him. His experience with Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions fuels his stories of adventures near the South Pole.

Mike McDowell

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Mike was born & educated in Australia. His career began on MacQuarie Island as a geophysicist with an Australian expedition in 1971. He would go on to found Quark Expeditions and pioneer tourism transit to the polar regions with Russian icebreakers. In the late 1990s, he sold Quark in order…
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