Benjamin J Wilcock

The wreckage has been found two days after the accident

I just finished my second and third helicopter (Hilo) trips to a site around the back of the mountain. We decided last minute to tag along with a team heading that way after being invited. The hilo ride was amazing. We flew over several glaciers and lakes with ice floating in them. Then we landed on the glacier jumped out of the Hilo and ducked as it took off and left us there in the middle of this amazing beautiful environment.

The reason we chose to sample this glacier is rather a sad one. About a year ago an army plane crashed into the mountain near the peak and fuel and wreckage was thrown and washed down onto the slopes and glacier bellow. While this accident is very sad we needed to make the most of the opportunity to study what happens to sites like this after contamination with kerosene.