It may be quite a bit more than that. From the reports, their tents got 
pretty beaten up by that storm. They are pretty light weight tents, not 
designed to hold up to the wind. There may be other issues with antennas 
and gear.
 It's our turn to patiently wait for their decision. In the meantime, 
anyone feeling flush can go to their website and hit donate -- last I 
looked, contributions have covered less than 75% of the costs they 
projected at the beginning of the mission.
73, Jim K9YC
On Tue,1/26/2016 3:43 PM, Herbert Schoenbohm wrote:
 I have no idea what is going though the team leader's mind right now 
but I would imagine that they are considering such a venture if some 
of the team are just to fatigued by the incidents at Thule Island and 
want to scrub the remainder. I can hear Dima saying in his low 
guttural  voice "vell yust drop me off" and " I will finish the 
mission myself." Thousands of us will hit the donate button again to 
fund the return of Dima and anyone else who wants to join him on South 
Georgia back to Port Stanley. 
 
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