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PhD student Armin Sigmund, who works at the CRYOS Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), prepares for his field expedition to check on a remote sensing station for the From Clouds to Ground: Snow Deposition in Extreme Environment project.

A lot of snow accumulated in the vicinity of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica during the austral winter. Here we can see members of the BELARE team helping Armin Sigmund from the EPFL remove snow from abound one of the remote sensing stations being used for the From Clouds to Ground project.

The entire team had a great New Year's Eve chatting with one another.

BELARE Expedition Leader Alain Hubert gives a speech to the entire team on New Year's Eve 2020-21.

The BELARE team helps themselves to the main dish of New Year's Eve dinner, which consisted of roast duck, seasoned potatoes and fruit salad with berries.

Until the new heated garage becomes operational, mechanics do maintenance on the Prinoth tractors outside when the weather is nice.

Our mechanic, Yann, performs general maintenance on ski-doos and other machines in a container, which has temporarily been converted into a workshop.

The IPF BELARE team installs the heavy mechanism for the rolling door at the entrance to the new, heated garage at PEA.

Tom installs all the doors and prepares the workshop for maximum efficiency.