| January 4th, 2010: The team leaves the camp at Balchen Fjella under strong katabatic winds. |
| West of this location, winds and turbulence diminish rapidly except for extreme katabatic winds on sunny summer evenings. |
| A katabatic wind is a wind that is blowing down a slope, and an anabatic wind blows up a slope. |
| The huts must stand up to the monster katabatic winds that reach up to 300 kph. |
| This sea breeze tends to die down in the mid-evening and by midnight the northeasterly katabatic wind will have re-asserted itself. |
| The bergs, driven towards the lake outlet by katabatic winds, become stranded as they move into shallower waters. |
