Marco Buutu and the experience at the Concordia Station: “In Antarctica is like on another planet: white, hostile and lonely”

But not just that. She regularly practices yoga and she continued to do it in Antarctica. How much did he help him?

Lor yoga always helps me. Here too, there are even far from Antarctica moments of tension and stress related to work, family and all inputs that come from society. In Concordia everything is of course strengthened, so the yoga has probably helped me even more. In addition to practicing, I also learned it from the other group members, and this helped us to create a more compact and coherent team. In short, it was help for everyonei.

In the book he talks about a painful experience. He lived terrible whiteout: It was outside the base, time suddenly changed and suddenly it has seen nothing anymore. Only white.

The first feeling was of surprise. They told us about the whiteoutBut I didn’t think it was As this dangerous. I had only moved 5 meters from the electrical cables ranging from the base to the containers where we have the instrumentation, with the idea of ​​taking some pictures. Suddenly I have not seen anything anymore: the wind raised snow and ice over me and the base was like disappeared. I had a moment of panic, then I thought and thought about going back to Stella, and luckily I found the basics. I never expected that I would lose an object just 5 meters away from me.

Tell us under so many emotions what was the most exciting moment of all?

Probably The day I left at the end of the first shipment. As a program I would have to leave Concordia on December 7. On December 1, a plane arrived that brought other employees and would have left the next day. The scientific manager of the expedition called me to a corner and he told me there was a free place, and that if I wanted, I could have left earlier. My mind was projected from five days later, and after I realized that instead I would have to run to the room the next day because the tears came to me for emotion. It was time to make the luggage, to leave this place that it was now my home. The arrival in Nieuw -Zeeland was also incredible: After more than a year, listen to new human voices, view the colors, feel the perfumes. It’s hard to tell it in words.

What did Antarctica learn her?

That there are some really necessary things, and others who are just an addition. I often keep thinking about it. To live it is not enough: a warm place to sleep and eat something. If there is also health, we have everything. Every time I wake up, I feel lucky for what I have.

*The National Research Program in Antarctica (PNRA) is financed by the MUR and managed by the National Research Council (CNR) for the scientific coordination, by Enea for the planning and logistics organization of activities in the Antarctic Bases and by the National Institute of Oceanography and the experimental and experimental and experimental and experimental and experimental and experimental and experimental geophysics and the experimental and experimental and experimental geophysics and the experimental geophysics and the experimental geophysics and the experimental geophysics and experimental geophysics and experimental geophysics and experimental geophysics and the experimental geophysics and experimental geophysics and the experimental geophysics and the experimental geophysics and experimental geophysics) and Laura Bassi Breach.