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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 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.

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.

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

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

Sometimes small adjustments make a big difference when weather conditions deteriorate. Thanks to these precise adjustments, the garage door can now be used, even in poor weather conditions.

PEA's new garage is large enough to work on a Prinoth tractor in a separate, heated section.