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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 mir...

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.

And dry, hard biscuits — ships biscuits, baking powder. 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 ge...

It is the last fingerhold 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%...

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 of civilisation, the most southe...

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 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 ...

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 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......

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 antarctic weather. i am beginning to understand why doing science here is so difficult. then i hear a crisis meeting has been called. the delays have got so bad theyre going to have to scale back some of the science. i want to find out whats going on. i managed to track down david vaughan. well, i think theres a lot of ambitions at stake here. people have been w...

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