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>> ryan: we're just passing 8,500 so we'll go another 4,000. you're 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 might start to smell some sulfur. you smell it? >> anthony: yeah i smell that sulfur. what's our al...

>> 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 that's mount lister it's probably 60 or 70 miles away and that's 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: it'd swallow buildings, it's very impressive. >> anthony: so that's what you don't want to hit with ...

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