| Dec 2 |
Kyle, Dibble, Lambert, Giggenbach to Scott Base. |
| 3 |
Preparations; Dibble, Giggenbach to Erebus Summit Camp. |
| 4 |
Tazieff, Le Guern, Sabroux, Le Bronec, Stauffer, Cavillon to Scott Base. |
| 4-7 |
Summit; acclimatisation and recon.: preparations at Scott Base. |
| 7 |
Norman, Lambert, Swindells, Milton and 6 French to Fang acclimatisation camp. |
| 8 |
Blizzard. |
| 9-10 |
Summit; tent and setting up seismometer: Fang; tent days. |
| 11 |
Summit; tent day: Fang; ascent/descent practice in Fang windscoop. |
| 12 |
Kyle and Keys to Fang: Norman et al to summit. |
| 3-15 |
Summit; seismometer network, acclimatisation, some gear to main crater rim, main crater wall route: Fang; geology, geochemistry. |
| 16 |
Tent day. |
| 17 |
Kyle and Keys to summit, gear from Scott Base to summit camp and from there to rim pad, seismometer in main crater. |
| 18 |
Gear to flying fox site, flying fox and winch assembled, seismology. |
| 19 |
Geology, geochemistry round main crater rim and in icecave, seismology. |
| 20 |
Gear to inner crater rim, inner crater winch assembled, gas sampling bottles broken, inner crater 24 hr observation commenced. |
| 21 |
Kyle, Lambert witness big eruption, flying fox cable broken, geology, geochemistry, seismology; Giggenbach, Sabroux to Scott Base. |
| 22 |
Tent day, seismology. |
| 23 |
Flying fox restrung, rest of gear to main crater floor, geology, geochemistry, seismology. |
| 24 |
Le Guern, Keys, Tazieff, Norman witness 6 eruptions (one big) within 3 hours; Giggenbach, Sabroux to summit camp, geology, geochemistry, seismology; Dibble, Keys witness big eruption. |
| 25 |
Tent day, Christmas celebrations. |
| 26 |
Tent day, geology, geochemistry, seismology in ice cave. |
| 27 |
Tent day. |
| 28 |
Geology, geochemistry on summit plateau to west, seismology. |
| 29 |
Tazieff, La Bronec, Stauffer, Cavillon to Scott Base, geology on summit plateau to south, east and north, seismology, some gear back to camp. |
| 30 |
Geology, geochemistry, seismology, rest of gear removed from main crater and back to camp. |
| 31 |
Breaking camp, geochemistry, party returns to Scott Base. |
| Jan 1 |
6 French, Dibble, Giggenbach return to N.Z. |
| 6 |
Kyle returns to N.Z. |
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