Logan Steffens

INTD105

Lts6@geneseo.edu

Hearing about Glen McClure’s Antarctic expedition was fascinating.  He spoke about how he was going to “split the difference” between the music you get by translating numbers to sound and regular compositions which use no numbers.  One of my favorite things that Glen McClure said was when he was speaking about the landscape.  He said that “the beauty is a terrible beauty.”  In Antarctica you have no sense of orientation because everywhere you look is almost identical.  There are some features on the landscape you can use to find your way around such as snow sculptures created by nature or the volcano which i have forgotten the name of.  Antarctica is dangerous for everybody no matter their profession because is you do not know how to stay with a group or use a GPS you will most likely not survive the harsh and unforgiving environment.  Glen says “humans were not meant to be down here.” But still we have to have people such as Glenn down there in order to study The continent because it could have a large impact on the rest of the world and that is why so many other countries have bases on Antarctica as well.