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This is seal blubber. what they would do is kill the seals on the ice, bring them back here, eat the meat and use the blubber to burn their stoves to keep them warm. which is why it smells like smoked fish in here, because it is covered, you can see it is just covered with soot from the blubber fire. its actually really ghostly because you get a sense of the people being here. scott himself leaving from here with that great ambition to get to the pole and then of course dying on the way back. an...

So, here goes. the us air force provides the planes. the safety briefing may be familiar, but nothing else about this flight is. im travelling with professor david vaughan, the director of science at the british antarctic survey. after flying due south for five hours, i get my first glimpse of antarctica, snow and ice stretching as far as the eye can see. finally, our destination. we are heading to mcmurdo. which is pretty much straight off over there. it is the last fingerhold

How many days behind schedule are we now? uh, i dont really even — i dont know, actually. why count? i think we can still imagine that we can still do 100% of the tasks but... you can still imagine? i can still imagine that we could do — with the following wind — 100% of the tasks but time is getting very, very tight. people are getting a little itchy and a little bit concerned. one only does anything in antarctica with the cooperation of the weather. suddenly the weather clears and miracu...

Bring them back here, eat the meat and use the blubber to burn their stoves to keep them warm. which is why it smells like smoked fish in here, because it is covered, you can see it is just covered with soot from the blubberfire. its actually really ghostly because you get a sense of the people being here. scott himself leaving from here with that great ambition to get to the pole and then of course dying on the way back. and like captain scott before us, our plans are frustrated by the antarcti...

Of civilisation, the most southerly town on earth, and the largest centre for scientific research on the continent. and out across the sea ice, the first peaks of the mighty tra nsa ntarctic mountains. keep it staying in place... it is here in mcmurdo that our expedition to the thwaites glacier begins. so, thwaites glacier is vulnerable and there is nothing stopping a collapse once it really takes hold. thwaites glacier is the size of britain and already accounts for 4% of global sea level rise....

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Down the helicopter, which belonged to a private search and rescue company. a prominent american cyber—security firm has revealed that it has been hacked. fireeye has blamed what it called a nation with top—tier offensive capabilities. in a blog, its chief executive kevin mandia said sensitive hacking tools had been stolen and the fbi had been informed. ceremonies are taking place in new zealand to mark the first anniversary of the deadly eruption of the white island volcano. 22 people died ...

Lets get some of the days other news. five people have been killed in a helicopter crash in the french alps. the pilot, who was able to eject, raised the alarm shortly after the aircraft went down in the savoie region, at an altitude of 1,800 metres. its not clear what brought down the helicopter, which belonged to a private search and rescue company. new zealand prime minister jacinda ardern has led tributes to mark one year since the white island volcanic eruption, which killed 22 people and i...

And the nights drawing in, the couple arrived this week... both of us have always enjoyed being kind of in the middle of nowhere or in the countryside, but when we went away to new zealand last year, we knew that it was something we wanted to do long—term. we didnt know specifically where, but when this came up, we knew it was something wed both really enjoy. so the area that we live in at the moment is bristol. yeah, we walk, there is a parkjust close by where we get our... walks in. 0ur natu...

Thank you. finally this lunchtime, would you move to live somewhere youve never visited? thats what one couple from bristol have done. alex mumford and buffy cracknell were among hundreds of people who applied to live and work on the isle of rum, 30 miles off the west coast of scotland, after seeing an advert asking for new residents. with the winter cold and the nights drawing in, the couple arrived this week. both of us have always enjoyed being kind of in the middle of nowhere or in the count...