Club Night with Bruce Davies speaking on his extensive Antarctic and Greenland adventures

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Monday 14 April 2025

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A laconic and amusing speaker, Bruce Davies has an interesting excellent tale to tell accompanied by his wondeful photos. Based in Nelson, he has had an amazing career on the ice over many seasons, sometimes both hemispheres in the same year.

Bruce (NZAC) is a veteran climber and explorer. He will describe highlights of trips to Spitzbergen , Greenland and Antarctica. In the 1970’s he spent two years in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey, on their field operations base, travelling extensively by dog team and skidoo. In the early 80s he worked two seasons for Cambridge University in Spitzbergen, skippering a small motorboat, taking geologists to areas of interest around the coast. In 2005 he went to Greenland, firstly working at the National Science Foundation’s science station at the very top of the icecap, and then on the Traverse Team, hauling fuel and cargo 1,000 km from the coast to the top of the icecap. After 18 trips to Greenland, covid halted his work there. In 2017 Bruce went south again to Scott Base, working three seasons on the Ross Ice Shelf Drill Project. Using skills learnt on the Greenland ice cap he helped set up the Scott Base Traverse Team, making the first long distance traverse (1,200km), from Scott Base by Kiwis, since Hillary’s 1958 expedition.

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