More aurora fun from Monday night/Tuesday morning. Short write-up below.
"A buddy and I took a helicopter up to a ridge at 3970ft and spent the night - all night - no sleep until 6am (and even then it was 90 uncomfortable minutes in my sleeping bag while we waited for our pick up) - shooting from our new fave spot. It was a challenging shoot. Dark, dark, dark - no moon, colder than we had expected with crazy constant (and I really mean constant - no breaks) 10-15mph wind buffeting our cameras and filling our ears with white noise and somewhat difficult, barren, crumbling rock terrain that fell off to steep, crevassed ice fields on one side and steep rocky and waterfall/gulley strewn drop offs on the other. Even tho I had entered the spot of our "basecamp" (landing spot) into my GPS, we had to rely on a headlamp I attached to my duffle to act as a beacon otherwise it was so dark and uneven up there we would have had a heck of a time finding our way home to our gear and bags and food. I was stunned (and grateful) when we reached the top of a little rise at 5:30am and the headlamp was still on after 6 hours! That little headlamp is my hero!
Anyway, here's the first image... It seems as if the Mendenhall Towers were the center of the universe for a little while. Earlier this year a couple well very well known climbers disappeared up there and are presumed to have been swept into a crevasse while descending after a successful climb. These lights felt like a tribute to them.
