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Endured by the first british antarctic explorers like scott, and shackleton and norwegian amundson and the lengths of time they endured them, are well, horrifying to imagine. they made their journeys in wooden ships, then man hauling equipment across glaciers, ice floes, mountains and frozen seas surviving on penguin meat when rations ran out. >> ryan: you might start to smell some sulfur. you smell it? >> anthony: yeah i smell that sulfur. whats our altitude now? >> ryan: 13, two. >> anthony: a...

Extricating somebody. >> anthony: theres a steep learning curve to flying down here, skillfully handle gale force winds, reduced control at high altitudes and the unpredictability of extreme turbulence around mountains and active volcanoes. >> ryan: slowly but surely climbing and its minus 20 outside. >> anthony: erebus and thats -- >> ryan: mount terror. >> anthony: vo this is mount erebus, the southernmost active volcano on earth. antarctica was a great mystery for most of human history. only ...

And few suitable runways beyond mcmurdo. for short hops, the main mode of transportation is helicopter. ryan skorecki gets a lot of flying time shuttling scientists to and from remote fuel camps. >> ryan: so thats mount lister its probably 60 or 70 miles away and thats over 14000 ft high. >> anthony: it looks close. >> ryan: yeah. look at that massive snow bridge over there. those are some good building sized blocks. >> anthony: how deep are those crest? rtd swallow budis, its very impressive. >...

They made their journeys in wooden ships, then man hauling equipment across glaciers, ice floes, mountains and frozen seas surviving on penguin meat when rations ran out. >> ryan: you might start to smell some sulfur. you smell it? >> anthony: yeah i smell that sulfur. whats our altitude now? >> ryan: 13, two. >>nthony: about 22 miles from mcmurdo is cape royds, where a penguin colony of about 2000 breeding pairs live. marine ecologist, dr. david ainley, has been studying this colony for 20 year...

Snowmobile. people climb around on those things? >> ryan: the mountaineers here you know have drills to practice extricating somebody. >> anthony: theres a steep learning curve to flying down here, skillfully handle gale force winds, reduced control at high altitudes and the unpredictability of extreme turbulence around mountains and active volcanoes. >> ryan: slowly but surely climbing and its minus 20 outside. >> anthony: erebus and thats -- >> ryan: mount terror. >> anthony: vo this is unt er...

>> ryan: were just passing 8,500 so well go another 4,000. youre going to see the main crater in just a second. >> anthony: the conditions endured by the first british antarctic explorers like scott, and shackleton and norwegian amundson and the lengths of time they endured them, are well, horrifying to imagine. they made their journeys in wooden ships, then man hauling equipment across glaciers, ice floes, mountains and frozen seas surviving on penguin meat when rations ran out. >> ryan: you mi...

>> anthony: there are no roads and few suitable runways beyond mcmurdo. for short hops, the main mode of transportation is helicopter. ryan skorecki gets a lot of flyingime shuttling scientists to and from remote fuel camps. >> ryan: so thats mount lister its probably 60 or 70 miles away and thats over 14000 ft high. >> anthony: it looks close. >> ryan: yeah. look at that massive snow bridge over there. those are some good building sized blocks. >> anthony: how deep are those crest? >> ryan: itd...

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