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Extricating somebody. >> anthony: there's 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 it's minus 20 outside. >> anthony: erebus and that's -- >> 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 a theory, a great white space at the bottom of the world. >> ryan: we're just passing 8,500 so we...

>> 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...

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. >> i'm thinking sunshine act. come up with something -- there's got to be a way to let the sunshine in. ironically on a day with a huge snowstorm in washington. we're breaking down the tea party identity crisis. they know what they're against. anti-taxers, birthers, 9/11 truthers, conspiracy theorists. but what are they for? and who will lead them? can the tea party find a consistent message, a basic value system and grow up as a movement with ...