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BELARE 2007-2008: Up on its Feet

The building team has begun raising the steel structure which will support the station's platform.

The building team has begun raising the steel structure which will support the station's platform.

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  • The building team has begun raising the steel structure which will support the station's platform.
  • Varying between 2 and 6 metres in length, the station counts a total of 14 steel struts which have been anchored into the Utsteinen rock.
  • Julien and Greg in the workshop area.
  • This is a mechanical adjustment system used to correct the steel bar's inclination with millimetre accuracy.
  • Team members are either working up on the ridge, filming those working on the ridge, building new bathroom facilities or cooking away to feed everyone.
  • Putting up the first horizontal beams.
  • Since the metal bars have been mounted on the Utsteinen ridge, work on the station has been advancing fast. But working up on the wooden beams requires the agility of a cat.
  • Reinforcement piece to solidify the junction of two or more wooden beams.
  • Checking the intersections and reinforcement pieces.
  • Upright beam being carried by crane.
  • Fixing the upright wooden beams to the steel bars.
  • Wooden structure doubling up.
  • Aerial View taken from the Inmarsat Antenna. If you look closely enough, you can faintly distinguish the base camp and construction site upon the ridge.
  • Alain and Bernard looking at where the rocks have to be cleared to fit the tower of the station.
  • The floor is now going in. Every step forward is a new release of tension.

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