One of the great joys of the ANSMET field work is reconnaissance, that time when we go looking for new, untouched icefields. Because many of the areas we go to sit at the base of the Transantarctic mountains, we are often provided with ideal lookout points from which to survey hundreds of square miles of the icesheet below us. It has proven to be a very useful way to understand the true extent of the blue ice exposed in a given region. In this scene, a reconnaissance party is approaching the top of Mt. Ackernar, which towers over the Law Glacier and the Lewis Cliff Ice Tongue, where more than 1500 meteorites were found during systematic searches.