A wooden sledge will bend and adapt to the terrain

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Each shoe is built on an asymmetrical orm, allowing or ull arch support, decreased atigue and incorporates agenerous amount o Poron cushioning. Taryn Rose InternationalTracy Wass, Copyright Business Wire 2009. REPTILE RIDGE, Antarctica (Reuters) - Away rom the high-tech British Antarctic base, we stepped back in time to use tents, oil lamps and wooden sledges little changed in more than a century o exploration o the icy continent. Green BusinessBritish experts still rely on low-tech para in sto es, wooden boxes and sheepskin mattresses similar to those used in the days when Norwegian Roald Amundsen beat Briton Robert alcon Scott to the South Pole in 1911."Scott would probably eel at home i he came into this tent until he saw me in the corner listening to my iPod," said Michael Chester, 28, a British ield assistant to scientists at the British Rothera Base on the Antarctic Peninsula.On Reptile Ridge, where jagged rocks look like the back o a lizard, we isitors spent a night camping out with scientists to learn how to sur i e in one o the most hostile places on earth.The wind howled through the night in what sounded like a storm outside our two-man tent, though more experienced hands said it was just a breeze magni ied by the sound o snow lakes drumming on the abric outer wall o the tent.Temperatures were just below reezing on the ridge, with a iew o er a bay studded with icebergs.Skills include putting up the orange tent and then teasing a para in primus sto e alight, making a meal inside the tent and learning how to send a "Mayday" radio message back to base.The primus is little changed since it was in ented in 1890.I almost set the tent alight.Wooden Nansen sledges, based on a Norwegian model borrowed rom Inuit designs, are stacked around Rothera. They are a ored by British experts o er plastic or metal sledges.SNOWMOBILES, DOGSThe sledges are now towed by snowmobiles rather than dogs, which were banned rom Antarctica in 1994 as part o a treaty to curb en ironmental damage Most gear is stored in wooden boxes."It works This has been tried and tested o er donkey's years. Why change something that works" John Withers, commander at the Rothera base, said o the contrast between the base and the older implements on Reptile Ridge a ew km (miles) away.The two-person rooms on the Rothera base ha e showers, che s pro ide la ish meals three times a day. And they can relax drinking a maximum o two beers a night.New arri als like us ha e to go through se eral days o training in e erything rom crossing the runway "look le t, look right, look up in the sky" to emergency irst aid such as how to use a scalpel, inject a painkiller or sew up a wound."It's ery typically British to tra el in parties o two people.

That's also why there's so much sa ety training you ha e to know how to do e erything," said Michiel an den Broeke, 40, a Dutch polar meteorologist also camping out.He said he had isited Antarctica be ore with Swedish, German and Norwegian groups "They try to take a small base with them," he said. "Americans also ha e much bigger ield trips, with ar larger tents and o ten generators."Many other nations including the Americans ha e orsaken traditional materials or high-tech plastics or metals all more expensi e than wood."A wooden sledge will bend and adapt to the terrain. Metal is more rigid it can snap, and you don't normally ha e welding equipment in the ield," said Gabriel Che alier, 30, a Swiss geologist working as a ield assistant at Rothera.Among other old things, our tin o sardines in our wooden supplies box was labeled "best be ore 2004". LONDON(Business Wire) As Agent Bank, please be ad ised o the ollowing rate determined on: 15/01/09Issue Holmes inancing (No.9) plc -Series 4 - Class A - GBP 600,000,000 RN due 15 Jan 2016ISIN Number XS0200692019ISIN Re erence 20069201Issue Nomin GBP 600,000,000 Period 15/01/09 to Payment15/04/09Date 15/04/09Number o Days 90Rate 2.35625Denomination GBP 100,000 600,000,000 Amount Payable per Denomination 580.99 3,485,958.9 0Bank o New YorkRate ix DeskTelep 44 1202 hone 689580Corporate Trust Ser ices acsi 44 1202mile 689601 HOLMES INANCING (NO.9) PLC Copyright Business Wire 2009.