park the icebreaker for efficient helicopter flights to the rookery. Our plan is to spend three days at the rookery to provide an unparalleled in-depth experience.

In 2006, visitors to the rookery saw Emperor chicks, many sitting on the feet of the adult caring for them. We hope to repeat that unique opportunity in 2008. Helocopters will be used to ferry adventurers to a landing site about 2 km (1.2 miles) or more from the rookery. You will walk a well-marked path through a sculpture garden of towering ice. Adult Emperors tobogganing to the sea to feed have the right of way!

While the Emperors are our priority, we also plan to visit the Antarctic Peninsula. Our exact route will be determined by local conditions.

We plan to sail Iceberg Alley. Use your newly acquired photographic skills to snap pictures of massive tabular icebergs until your camera beeps a warning that the memory is full. While passing through Antarctic Sound, you will see more fantastic ice sculptures, from pure white to deep blue. A soulful silence may engulf you, unless a glacier calves or an iceberg overturns – then suddently, eerything is noice and waves.

While visiting the Peninsula, we hope to explore penguin rookeries under construction. Adelie, Chinstrap and Gentoo Penquins court, lay eggs and raise their young during the austral summer. Your voyage takes place at a time when these smaller penguins are selecting nesting sites and choosing partners.

You will be hungry after each day’s activities – but only for a moment. The Hospitality Team prides itself on satisfying your hunger as well as the Expedition Team satisfies your craving for adventure.

You will be recalling the details of the voyage, as you cross the Drake Passage once again. These memories will stay with you, as clear and powerful as the day they were formed. The existence of the Emperor Penguin is more more than a story of survival and endurance. It is the triumph of life itself.