Nei Maldaner left Porto Alegre on November 11st, 2006 for an incredible adventure. He navigated for one month crossing the Antarctic continent, on November 12nd Nei arrived in Ushuaia where will embark in a ship ice-break Kapitan Khlebnikov. Look the history!

After two years of wait, I accomplish one more dream: come back to the peninsula Antarctica, where I was already making a smaller course. So much was my anxiety due to the professional commitments that allotted my calendar in the week that preceded the departure. I was concern with the baggage excess due to the necessary equipments to a trip as that, which still left me more anxious.

In the end of the day finishing a course of Management, I felt fool, I went in the pharmacy to measure the pressure, it was a little high, so I drunk a tea get lower. After that, I still made a meeting with managers and I had more other fool. Finished the work I went home, the other day that followed the trip. In the road an anxiety crisis made me to stop the car, leaves the car, walked, returned, arrived home, I was not very well, I went to the hospital. They measured the pressure, it was high, 17 x 10. I got a injection to lower and it didn't lower. After hours I went back home, not much better.

Shit! That had to happen that just before traveling, good I would go the same way, I found a way of getting a pressure meter and I followed trip in the next day.

Accompanying the typical nervousness of the ones that is about to accomplish an unforgettable adventure, I disembarked at Buenos Aires, in the Saturday morning. In the capital of Argentina, I found my friend Zelfa and I had dinner in the neighborhood of Recoleta. I had some badly to be, but my thoughts were: "I am going of any way!" Zelfa assisted me very well; we went at the airport to catch our friends that came from Ushuaia.

The following morning I left for Ushuaia, I paid excess for the four suitcases, 300 pesos, I arrived in Ushuaia and I caught a cab for the hotel, there I saw that I would have to go up three stairway floors, I found a way of leaving two suitcases in the reception. When I wanted to open the suitcase for catch some things, I forget the password. I ended up breaking my suitcase! Organized in the Hotel, I went to internet.

Already installed in the Monaco Hotel and much calmer, I was feeling better, but I had felt the symptoms of an AVC even, Ayumi had entered in contact with my doctor, he said that should not be anything besides anxiety of the trip. That tranquilized me a little.

Well, I had one more day to enjoy the city and to wait the companions of the trip, that arrived of several parts of the world. So we would move for the hotel in the other day, where everybody would meet.

I went to visit the city, stores, restaurants. I love Ushuaia! It rained, the sun opened, even snow flakes had in the middle of November, all this in the same day! I was happy, nor remembered my pressure more and the stress.

Crafts, a lot of cool things. I thought: "I have to return here to take these souvenirs, but not now, because I am already full of things!" I found two good stores of digital cameras, I looked at and I looked at, better prices than Brazil.

On Tuesday 14th, I and all the adventurers would know the ship in that we will stay for 29 days, the powerful ice-break Kapitan Khlebnikov, built in Finland in 1981, that sails the most remote and extreme corners of the planet with adventurous travelers since 1992.

The adventure part of Ushuaia in Argentina and follows until Christchurch, New Zealand. Places as Drake Passage, and south of the Shetland Island, Marguerite Bay, Ilha Peter I, Ilha Ross Hoists, Shelf Ross Sea, Castrate Adare and Ilha Campbell are some places that are in the route of that incredible and cold adventure.

I, through INEMA embark and I take you together in that trip! Everything that happened in that expedition for the cold continent, you check here in INEMA with beautiful photos and a lot of matter!

Team INEMA

Translation: Débora A. da Silva