“I realized then that a person could, with their friends, go to a remote place, and do real science while having a breathless adventure,” Gregg later wrote, adding, “The boat and its history mean more to me every day.”
'Only one vessel—the U.S. research icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer—has successfully penetrated the area's phalanx of sea ice...to reach a critical location on Thwaites, widely considered the world's most dangerous glacier.'