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If you’re in Christchurch next weekend and feeling brave, join me and the NZ Antarctic Society for a midwinter polar plunge at New Brighton Beach to celebrate Christchurch’s connections with Antarctica!

Ever since my winter in Antarctica, I’ve been obsessed with auroras. Thankfully, I can see them close to home!

Surprise aurora last night in Christchurch. Quick phone pic while the memory cards download

What is the coldest you’ve been and where?

There’s a green LC-130 ski Hercules at Christchurch Airport today 😍

Most of the world’s 18 penguin species have declining populations. Today is world penguin day where we hope to raise awareness for these vulnerable creatures.

Had a great time last weekend visiting the U.S. scientific icebreaker- the Nathaniel B Palmer. She docked in Lyttelton harbour (New Zealand) to resupply before sailing back to Antarctica to resupply Palmer Station. This is now the fourth icebreaker I’ve had the pleasure of looking around!

One of the best wins in history. Rory McIlroy, you absolute superstar.

Don’t think I’ve ever stressed over a game of golf I’ve been playing, let alone watching. Rory, get it together.

If Rory wins the Masters, it’ll be up there with the best wins in golf history.

The classic Otira Viaduct shot in Arthurs Pass. How good is New Zealand

Morning reflections in Milford Sound, New Zealand

First light in Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand

Iconic New Zealand - Milford Sound

This morning’s pre-sunrise walk up Roys Peak in Wanaka, New Zealand. Well worth the early start.

After nearly 8 years living in New Zealand, I only today found out what the national badmington team tried to call themselves 😂

Finally getting around to processing and re-editing some of my early Antarctic images. Such great memories looking back on some incredible experiences

Heading to Fiji soon to defrost 🥶. Never been before. Any recommendations for places to stay and things to see and do?

This is the training regime undertaken by the first German to ski solo and unsupported to the South Pole. It was awesome to listen to Roland Krüger speak about his adventure where he covered ~1,000km over 50 days in Antarctica. Absolute legend

There’s something so appealing about today’s date - 25/02/2025

Just watched the Secret Life of Walter Mitty and now I want to go to Greenland

The first emperor penguin I saw (back in 2019). You probably can’t even see it, but it was one of the most memorable days ever

Do you ever have those moments when you think “my younger self wouldn’t believe me if I told them what life is like now?”

Missing the days of riding bikes across Antarctica’s frozen ocean

My latest YouTube video is live. Come for a walk with me from New Zealand to the USA over frozen ocean :)

Have you ever seen what the underside of Antarctic sea ice looks like? Probably not, but here it is. The beautiful white snowy top harbours significant life below. This algae provides a critical habitat for krill and several species of microalgae.

Nice to be warm for once 😂 great stop in Hong Kong on my way home from India. Beautiful city!

Great time at the Gypsy Travel Festival in Mumbai, India delivering the closing keynote about Antarctica!

Have you ever created something that you’re just so insanely proud of? For me, that’s this video. I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever made, and I would love it if you gave it a watch. It’s about the process of flying from New Zealand to Antarctica. I hope you enjoy it! Matty

A New Year’s Eve spent over Antarctica, coincidentally right above Scott Base. A significant and hugely fitting way to close the door on one of the best years of my life ❤️. Happy new year from my blue sky to yours.

The child in me wants to try and push this iceberg back in so badly…

What’s Santa’s ETOPS?

It turns out that if I birdie the first hole, I play exceptional golf. A golf goal of mine was to one day have a score card with no 6’s on it! After playing the game for around 25 years, I’m stoked that I did that today! My second best round ever!

Happy summer solstice from my backyard in New Zealand ☀️

Bought a drone to fly around New Zealand, only to realise that there are so few areas worth flying that I’m actually allowed to fly a drone in New Zealand 😑

The mighty Drygalski Ice Tongue in Terra Nova Bay in Antarctica. Can you tell which way the current and the wind are going? To put this in perspective, it’s about 50km long and between 12-24km wide…

Herc at work. Awesome visit to see the new RNZAF J model Hercules last week just before they flew to #Antarctica

Today, I got a tour inside the RNZAF’s new C130-J Hercules. This is part of a fleet of new cargo planes to support the airforce on their missions including flights to Antarctica

I’ve been back from Antarctica for 2 days and I’ve got hay fever already

Pre boarding views of the C17 Globemaster in #Antarctica

Absolutely obsessed with the place. Photo taken in out the right hand side of a C17 Globemaster in Northern Victoria Land on a flight between Phoenix Airfield in #Antarctica and Christchurch in New Zealand.

Just a snippet of yesterday’s flight views. Phoenix Airfield, Antarctica to Christchurch, New Zealand

9pm in the big white world

The light inside Antarctica’s second oldest building is unreal. This is Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery Hut near McMurdo Station and Scott Base. It’s been standing since 1902 and provides a fascinating insight into what live was like for the early heroic explorers of #Antarctica.

Pondering. Candid photo of my looking out the window, just appreciating the beauty of #Antarctica

Happy Antarctica day from Antarctica. It’s the Antarctic Treaty’s 65th birthday and I’m really glad it was born.

Happy thanksgiving from McMurdo Station in Antarctica. I was invited over to our neighbouring station to celebrate thanksgiving. This is not a holiday I’ve celebrated before, I can absolutely see the appeal. Great food, good company, and a lot of gratitude for the ability to live and work on the ice

I visited the neighbours today. It took 8 minutes to get from New Zealand to the United States 😂

Snowy doors and some Scott Base geometry. This was close to the heaviest snowfall I’ve ever seen in #Antarctica and it turned the place into a winter wonderland 🥰