like i said, it takes a special breed of hard-ass to not just make it down here, but like it. you got to be tough. doug: right now i love being in mcmurdo, because it s like being at a spa for scientists. anthony: doug macayeal is one of the world s preeminent glaciologists, who s been coming to antarctica since the 70s. the coffee house one of three watering holes on station. it s not much to look at, but offers a welcome respite from the cold. doug: one thing about this continent that s special is the vertical hierarchy. everybody respects up and down equally. the janitor really does have a sense that their action is right at the frontline. that doesn t happen as much elsewhere in the world of science. tangibly seeing a contribution. anthony: what brought you here? it s cold down here. doug: it s part of some kind of personal honor. people who come as a scientist might think of their science as
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built the station actually came on one of these c-130 s. they had to build it with trusses and pieces that could fit in the confines of an lc-130. male pilot: it s a fun job, and it s important to scientists, it s fantastic. anthony: in just a few hours, we cross the ross ice shelf, fly up the beardmore glacier into the heart of antarctica the polar plateau. how many miles from mcmurdo to the pole? around female pilot: 735 miles. anthony: scott walked that? what was going through his mind? male pilot: they loved to suffer. anthony: the first explorers who got here or came close, raced across the continent, striving to be the first. amundson made it before anyone in 1911, beating scott by only 34 days. amundson wisely used huskies to pull his sleds across the ice. scott didn t and his team never made it back alive. the south pole. what you might not know or be prepared for is the south pole is high, like 9,000 feet above