Meet the Team: Peter McCabe - Field Leader/Builder

Pete is playing a dual role this trip as Field Leader and one of two carpenters. He spent the last 7 weeks helping to plan this expedition in Hobart, and managing the design and ordering of materials for the extension of the Sorensen hut, this year's construction project. The Sorensen Hut which the party use as a refuge will be doubled in size to accommodate a bedroom and laboratory for on site restoration of artefacts that are uncovered from Mawson's Hut. After the floor platform is laid Pete and the team will eagerly await the arrival of Orion, and the delivery of the freezer panels to complete the construction. Pete has spent 14 months previously living in Antarctica, working from two of Australia's Bases. He spent the full summer and winter at Casey station working as a carpenter completing a new field equipment store. He then spent two months at Davis laying foundations for a new accommodation building and then guided staff in the field, wandering the beautiful Vestfold Hills with science staff and TV crews. He appeared on channel tens Totally Wild and Scope Antarctic series'. When at home on the far north coast of NSW he splits his work time between building custom homes on the Tweed Coast, and attending corporate team building seminars as a guest motivational speaker. In his leisure he surfs, rock climbs, plays guitar and harmonica and is a regular yoga student.