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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 ...

>> 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...

C-span, like we were told they would be, it would take some of the mystery out of it. and some of of the suspicion out of it. i agree with you there. >> im thinking sunshine act. come up with something -- theres got to be a way to let the sunshine in. ironically on a day with a huge snowstorm in washington. were breaking down the tea party identity crisis. they know what theyre against. anti-taxers, birthers, 9/11 truthers, conspiracy theorists. but what are they for? and who will lead them? c...