With six months of continual darkness, sub-zero conditions and supreme isolation, the Antarctic is the perfect setting for a horror flick in which the environment drives inhabitants to madness.
The frigid ice-mass on the bottom of the world is a magnet for ambitious scientists as well as adventurers who’ll work as janitors for the privilege of getting to live there. But 600 miles from the southern tip of South America and even further to the nearest point of civilization, some short-term residents lose it under the place’s pressure and isolation.
Because one thing that can still run hot in the frozen land are tempers.
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Paul Doran, doing research in Antarctica and standing alongside an icy mountain. @LSUGeology/X
A South African scientist on a two month
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