Jan 2 - A stroll around Fisher Nunatak

We left Hendo hut about lunchtime and hagged the 4 km south to Fischer nunatak (Lat -67.730° Long 63.054°), named after H J L Fischer, the cook at Mawson in 1958.

We parked the hagg a few hundred metres north of the melt-lake, (about 500 m ASL) then walked over the lake and in a clockwise direction through various multi-levelled lakes until we got inside the enormous wind-scour to the east of the nunatak itself. Once again, examining the ice formations around the rocks formed from multiple freeze/thaw cycles took up a lot of time; it's all novel stuff to people who grew up without ice.

Then we scrambled up a fairly steep rocky wall and pooped out on the top of the nunatak itself, with excellent views of all the Framnes mountain down to Mawson station on the coast. We descended via a scree slope back towards the start of our climb and after a few hours, got back into the hagg and headed for home, just in time to get there for dinner at 6.30.