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but their looking for some indicator that there are fish in there. david: they re afraid to cross the ice crack because leopard seals might be in them. they re very hesitant so then finally they make the plunge. anthony: i mean, they re very agile. they don t look though at first at first brush. they appear clumsy, but i m watching them and they ve got a david: yeah, they re very, verygile. anthony: increasingly people want to see penguins. they are much loved by, you know, children everywhere. a lot of people would like to come to antarctica as tourists and look at penguins up close in a natural environment without impacting in a negative way. is that a good thing? david: and e thing about antarctica is that most scientists you know keep their nose to the grind stone. so the only advocacy for antarctica has to come from the public. it s very valuable to have these tours cause then people have an ownership, you know they ve been there and they see it. anthony: what keeps y
these really knarly winds that come off, and drop down into the plateau and then rush towards the edges of the continent gushing through these valleys. anthony: so it s a fluky micro climate here? michael: we call it the banana belt i of antarctica. it s warm, we re coastal. anthony: life at lake hoare, considering the limitations and the difficulties, is freakin luxurious by continental standards. out here, by the way, as everywhere on the continent, every bit of waste is separated and collected. one pee s in a bottle and pours it in the barrel, where it is eventually collected and shipped back to america. life here most definitely has its advantages. rae and her staff seem always to be making something delicious. homemade bread, scones, muffins appear throughout the day. tonight its bbq pork tenderloin. oh that looks good. pork tenderloin, damn. grilled mahi sticks and shrimp marinated in chili sauce. homemade sourdough bread, a roasted beet salad. woman in orange: oh, my go
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