I enjoyed revisiting the Ice Tunnels at South Pole. I spent hours down there in 2015 helping to tear down and remove the old "warm-up hut" which was being crushed by the moving ice, enlarging the area and moving ice in preparation of the building of the new "warm-up hut" and putting all of the medical supplies in it. I loved it down there! It was nice to see Josh who was with me for the winter at Palmer Station in 2018 and I recognized Eric's voice at the other end of Josh's radio. He also was with me and Josh at Palmer and I ran into him in Christchurch when I was heading down to McMurdo in November 2019. I'll see Josh when I head back down to Palmer Station for this summer season there. LOVE these experiences! Thanks for sharing them.
I’m so envious! Such a special place. Steve, you’re doing everything I’d love to do if I had my life all over again. Hearing about McMurdo and Palmer stations and your stays summer and winter. I’d have to pinch myself to believe it if I found I was in ice tunnels at the South Pole! I can’t believe how big it is. It always appeared to be a big dome, with a wide entrance from the outside, leading to - I imagined - fairly compact facilities. Do people still have a skinny dip into water from a hole cut in the ice on the winter solstice? That couldn’t be from the South Pole as there’s no sea, but I’ve seen videos of people doing it.
@@moiraatkinson They do the "ice plunges" at McMurdo Station and Palmer Station, Moira, but at South Pole we have the South Pole 300. When the temp gets below MINUS 100 degrees F, we jump in a sauna set above 200 degrees F and warm up our core for about 30-40 minutes before walking outside of the station and walking around the geographic South Pole (90 degrees, zero minutes South) and, then, back to the sauna. Takes about 10-12 minutes and in circling the geographic South Pole you walk through all time zones on earth. A 300 degree temperature difference is not something everyone has a chance to experience! I did it in boots, hat, muffler, gloves and Grinch boxer shorts! Others skip the shorts. I opted for decorum. : )
@@steveallerding4909 I think I would too 😊. It’s funny how it takes quite a while before you realise 90 deg is only a theoretical point, you can’t exactly pinpoint it on a map. I started to think about this when I watched a light aircraft on TV take some people to the North Pole. When he got to 89 deg, the pilot was looking for somewhere to land.and thought, he’s not even waiting to reach 90. But you can’t can you? Same as, I can’t find 90 deg on Google earth. The map goes to 89.9, then moving the mouse around, you find you’re on 89.8 and so on. Because how big is this place “90 deg”? A pinprick? I suppose all you can do is stand on top of it and think, the Pole is somewhere under my boots! That’s my philosophy lecture for today anyway 🤣. Sometimes I wish I was from the US, then I’d maybe have had a chance to live and work within the Antarctic circle. Otherwise I guess you need to be some exceptional scientist to get there. I used to think McMurdo was a military base - is that the case?
Somewhere, there is a skilled worker/scientist who took the journey to the south pole to explore and probe the earth for it's secrets and also thought it a good idea to leave all of their MLP paraphernalia there. One must really contemplate life in extreme places like that.
Thank you!! I really appreciate that!! It was a lot of fun to make them. I had the footage for one more, but I unfortunately had a hard drive failure before I could back it up. Trying to recover it now though, so hopefully there will be one more on the way eventually!
@@MrJamezGamez I was looking for this comment. Not to mention they have small airplanes in it. Reminds me of as above so below. I'm sure they know some things don't add up.
I was at the South Pole when a few of the shrines were created. The Amundson bust was one of multiple heads created for the anniversary of the South Pole being reached in 1911. Martin Lewis was the one that was finally able to get the ice to freeze without cracking before the ceremony. Not sure who created the shrine but it was done during the 2011-12 summer season.
Excellent! Love the tour. I would have never imagined the complexity of the "underground" tunnel and infrastructure network. Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
Casually walking around in -50C seems insane to me, given that I found -40 degrees Celcius to be genuinely scary. Even breathing became a challenge - even for a person living my whole life north of the Arctic Circle with all the cold winters we get here. I would love to experience the elevated station someday, but those outdoor temperatures will probably keep me too scared to even consider it...
@@MFKR696 That's a good philosophy if you have no choice but to work in those temperatures, but it is also good to contemplate just how extreme it is and have the fear of mortality strike you. In life, reasoning why is the key to living free.
@@valthiriansunstrider2540 That guy in the video didn’t look like he was living in a hugely stressful environment. He was walking round in a T shirt FFS and this was the winter skeleton crew. I know it wasn’t the depths of winter, but it wasn’t summer and he went outside briefly in the same T shirt 😳. At -70C flesh freezes in 30 seconds. This little village in Siberia had days when children weren’t allowed outside and it showed one little girl getting ready for school. By the time her mother had finished, the child was as wide as she was tall and needed someone to help her take off all the layers. She looked like the Michelin tyre advert !
This is crazy to watch! Excitment, claustrophobia, mystiriousnes, wonder, respect. I personally could not do this, so thank you and the folks there for sharing this!
I’m so glad I discovered this channel! Thanks for openly sharing what life is like in one of the most mysterious places on earth! I’m totally watching the rest of your South Pole videos.
@@GoneVenturing My favorite part was where you guys were like " and here is where the aliens are...." haha seriously! I gotta say that thought crossed my mind when I saw that.
Great video. Makes me sad I’ll never get the chance to go down there and see it in person. Seems like you guys find ways to have fun down there. Keep up the good work!
Interesting video about the Ice Tunnels at the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station. The tunnel temperature of minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit is far colder than a home freezer that runs about 0 degrees Fahrenheit.
Is the sturgeon still down there? I had the opportunity to go down there one season while deploying IceTop. There weren't as many shrines down there. But I do remember the pig's head (with sunglasses), and a frozen bottle of Crown Royal, and of course the sturgeon. We called the ice crystals "poosicles" because they were really only there in any significant amount around where the outflow was dumping into the old rod-well. As I remember the new fresh water rod-well was connected and commissioned a few years after my trip, so your current outflow is probably filling the rod-well that I drank out of.
It is indeed! And those shrines as all still that. But you're probably right about the Rod-Well as well! But that's really cool! I need to ask though, what's IceTop??
@@GoneVenturing IceTop is the surface array to IceCube. At the top of all the strings for IceCube are two tanks, each with a 600 gallon block of optically clear ice and two of the IceCube DOMs embedded in them. (Is there still a DOM just inside the entrance to the station?)
This was really interesting to see, and even if it hadn't been the whole video is worth it just for those amazing ice crystals at the end of the tunnel!
No worries! Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'd love if you check out some of my newer stuff as well, because the video quality has really gone up ☺️ Also, I'm now back in Antarctica so videos from down here will start coming up soon!
How does the water/waste not freeze in those pipes going through that -50C tunnel? Also, I'm surprised you guys use F to measure temperature. I know it's an American station, but still surprising considering it's a scientific outpost. Thank you so much for showing us these really cool areas and doing the station tour. So fascinating!
You might be surprised to hear this, but most of our engineering work for space, defense, etc, still uses imperial as a primary; And after the mars mishaps and others, you can imagine there are (for many institutions) standards for unit conversions during deeper design or mission architecture reviews.
I too would like to know how the fresh and waste water does not freeze. If the pipes or liquid was heated you would assume the heat would leak and the inside of the tunnel would be between 30F-40F, which is fairly comfortable in a lot less gear then they have...
These pipes man. Don’t know what they are for? Looking to me like air pipes. No waste or water pipes. Just air shafts. Yea these jokes huh? Totally hidden in plain sight. Your are looking at them and don’t realize it. We look like you 👽👍
So this is BELOW the ground? If so, I can't imagine how difficult the planning and construction of this site was. Insane. And it's carved out of the ICE? The walls aren't concrete? And why does the building set elevated? And WHAT ARE ALL THOSE PIPES? I saw one was water - how is it kept from freezing?
Depends what job you are looking for. There are ads in the papers in Christchurch, New Zealand every year for Mechanics, Chefs etc. They are generally looking for people with multiple skills and can play well with others.
They wouldn't be open anymore. We still melt ice to get our drinking water though! But there are no signs from the original station around, or even really the dome that was decommissioned in 2008.
@@GoneVenturing I cant believe they dismantled the old 50 m dome. Unless they needed that ground, it could have been used for storage or summer outside camp personnel or even an emergency shelter which they have to have in case of fire. They use part of the new building for this now, but its still joined and what if it really is all somehow destroyed? So typical political/govt bureaucracy? Yes, the dome use to be an issue being buried a bit and they had to keep clearing the snow away but they have heaps of equipment there that can do the job especially if its used as a facility. If the dome was becoming unstable or corroded fair enough it has to come down but perhaps leaving it there a while longer couldnt have hurt if it was ok? The original wooded station from 56- 74? would be buried under a lot of snow unless they removed that and then built the dome. Imagine Scott/Amundsen, if they saw today the 2 story structure with 2 gyms a music room , large dining room and all the scientific areas the new station has. Its the size of a small university and every piece had to come down by plan e and all the food and fuel from Mckmurdo and from NZ and from the US? No wonder the US is broke and aust too for that matter!
Wow! What an incredible place! Those ice crystals were beautiful! It would have been nice not to have the music though....just the silence of the ice, as you were walking through. Also, I think it would have been better if you could have talked a wee bit slower, and spent just a bit more time on the shrines. YOU know what they represent, but we don't.
I don't know about you, but when my face is freezing and my lungs are convulsing from breathing in very cold temperatures, I tend to hurry my speech (to its own peril) as well.
Yeah as far as the ponies go I'm sure they just brought them or shipped them down! Believe it or not, in the summer you can even order things on Amazon! But I'm pretty sure they built the puppets here in the craft room!
These videos are priceless! If the climate changes this fast these pictures will be just good old day memories because the lack of any ice. Well done, monsieur!
this guy wanted to make a video ,but he was showing more off himself ,...and not the surroundings, i really wanted to know about the warm room as well .....!!!
Do these tunnels suffer from the same encroachment/collapse that plagued Camp Century in Greenland? The ice sheet is always slowly moving even at the South Pole too right?
Yes it is. They have to replace the stake at the actual South Pole now and again. It is just visible from the building. There is a ceremonial barber’s pole with a shiny ball on top closer to Amundsen-Scott base.
Not too crazy long. They're maybe a mile total or something? Maybe a bit less. I honestly don't remember the number. Josh told me, but it's been like a year since I was down there.
I enjoyed revisiting the Ice Tunnels at South Pole. I spent hours down there in 2015 helping to tear down and remove the old "warm-up hut" which was being crushed by the moving ice, enlarging the area and moving ice in preparation of the building of the new "warm-up hut" and putting all of the medical supplies in it. I loved it down there! It was nice to see Josh who was with me for the winter at Palmer Station in 2018 and I recognized Eric's voice at the other end of Josh's radio. He also was with me and Josh at Palmer and I ran into him in Christchurch when I was heading down to McMurdo in November 2019. I'll see Josh when I head back down to Palmer Station for this summer season there. LOVE these experiences! Thanks for sharing them.
I’m so envious! Such a special place. Steve, you’re doing everything I’d love to do if I had my life all over again. Hearing about McMurdo and Palmer stations and your stays summer and winter. I’d have to pinch myself to believe it if I found I was in ice tunnels at the South Pole! I can’t believe how big it is. It always appeared to be a big dome, with a wide entrance from the outside, leading to - I imagined - fairly compact facilities. Do people still have a skinny dip into water from a hole cut in the ice on the winter solstice? That couldn’t be from the South Pole as there’s no sea, but I’ve seen videos of people doing it.
@@moiraatkinson They do the "ice plunges" at McMurdo Station and Palmer Station, Moira, but at South Pole we have the South Pole 300. When the temp gets below MINUS 100 degrees F, we jump in a sauna set above 200 degrees F and warm up our core for about 30-40 minutes before walking outside of the station and walking around the geographic South Pole (90 degrees, zero minutes South) and, then, back to the sauna. Takes about 10-12 minutes and in circling the geographic South Pole you walk through all time zones on earth. A 300 degree temperature difference is not something everyone has a chance to experience! I did it in boots, hat, muffler, gloves and Grinch boxer shorts! Others skip the shorts. I opted for decorum. : )
@@steveallerding4909 I think I would too 😊. It’s funny how it takes quite a while before you realise 90 deg is only a theoretical point, you can’t exactly pinpoint it on a map. I started to think about this when I watched a light aircraft on TV take some people to the North Pole. When he got to 89 deg, the pilot was looking for somewhere to land.and thought, he’s not even waiting to reach 90. But you can’t can you? Same as, I can’t find 90 deg on Google earth. The map goes to 89.9, then moving the mouse around, you find you’re on 89.8 and so on. Because how big is this place “90 deg”? A pinprick? I suppose all you can do is stand on top of it and think, the Pole is somewhere under my boots! That’s my philosophy lecture for today anyway 🤣. Sometimes I wish I was from the US, then I’d maybe have had a chance to live and work within the Antarctic circle. Otherwise I guess you need to be some exceptional scientist to get there. I used to think McMurdo was a military base - is that the case?
How far down are the tunnels?
I was about to ask if the tunnels ever shift or shrink or grow due to the ice melting or something, but this kinda answered that. Awesome!
Somewhere, there is a skilled worker/scientist who took the journey to the south pole to explore and probe the earth for it's secrets and also thought it a good idea to leave all of their MLP paraphernalia there. One must really contemplate life in extreme places like that.
Haha yeah. To each their own though! My escape was making these videos!
Very true. Thanks for the videos, they are a lot more interesting than any doc I've seen on Antarctic research stations.
Thank you!! I really appreciate that!! It was a lot of fun to make them. I had the footage for one more, but I unfortunately had a hard drive failure before I could back it up. Trying to recover it now though, so hopefully there will be one more on the way eventually!
You act as though MLP is a joke and not a serious pursuit.
come on mlp is awesome, and it really helps keep you in a good mood, it makes sense they would have it
I would get lost staring into that blue ice hole. That has got to be the most beautiful color of blue ever! Thanks for sharing, this was awesome!
That's the Firmament. Some call it Sky Ice. Its solid Oxygen.
@@MrJamezGamez I was looking for this comment. Not to mention they have small airplanes in it. Reminds me of as above so below. I'm sure they know some things don't add up.
I was at the South Pole when a few of the shrines were created. The Amundson bust was one of multiple heads created for the anniversary of the South Pole being reached in 1911. Martin Lewis was the one that was finally able to get the ice to freeze without cracking before the ceremony. Not sure who created the shrine but it was done during the 2011-12 summer season.
Best part.....seeing the ice crystal formations, hanging from the ceiling. Now, THAT was cool! You can actually see them as snowflakes. Cool. Thanks!
Thank you! Yeah, it really is pretty incredible ☺️ Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent! Love the tour. I would have never imagined the complexity of the "underground" tunnel and infrastructure network. Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
thank you, something i would have never seen in my lifetime.
Casually walking around in -50C seems insane to me, given that I found -40 degrees Celcius to be genuinely scary. Even breathing became a challenge - even for a person living my whole life north of the Arctic Circle with all the cold winters we get here. I would love to experience the elevated station someday, but those outdoor temperatures will probably keep me too scared to even consider it...
@@MFKR696 That's a good philosophy if you have no choice but to work in those temperatures, but it is also good to contemplate just how extreme it is and have the fear of mortality strike you. In life, reasoning why is the key to living free.
Know the feeling. I can't deal with even basic cold very well and I was born into it. But I would absolutely love to see this place.
I have worked in -55C for hours, with a few intermittent warm up breaks. A small breeze CHANGES EVERYTHING.
There are colder places than the South Pole, which have an awful lot fewer luxuries. I’ve mentioned it in another comment.
@@valthiriansunstrider2540 That guy in the video didn’t look like he was living in a hugely stressful environment. He was walking round in a T shirt FFS and this was the winter skeleton crew. I know it wasn’t the depths of winter, but it wasn’t summer and he went outside briefly in the same T shirt 😳. At -70C flesh freezes in 30 seconds. This little village in Siberia had days when children weren’t allowed outside and it showed one little girl getting ready for school. By the time her mother had finished, the child was as wide as she was tall and needed someone to help her take off all the layers. She looked like the Michelin tyre advert !
Like your prayer flags!
You definitely are in a nicer place than what I was in in the winter of 1971.
5:58 that's the button that turns gravity on & off!! 😂😂
10:40 - 11:05 took my breath away, literally. Thank you for sharing.
"And the earth is flat" wicked timing on your sense of humour.
He just said the true.
Show us the ice wall!
I was just thinking of this before he said this ._. does that mean that water/ice blue colour relates to why the sky is blue?
This is crazy to watch! Excitment, claustrophobia, mystiriousnes, wonder, respect. I personally could not do this, so thank you and the folks there for sharing this!
I’m so glad I discovered this channel! Thanks for openly sharing what life is like in one of the most mysterious places on earth! I’m totally watching the rest of your South Pole videos.
This is the most amazing thing ive ever seen. The shrines are way cool but those ice crystals....no words.
Ahh thank you so much! And right?! They’re absolutely stunning 😍
@@GoneVenturing My favorite part was where you guys were like " and here is where the aliens are...." haha seriously! I gotta say that thought crossed my mind when I saw that.
Hahaha I'm glad you liked it! I thought it was a funny idea but then of course I started worrying that someone would take it seriously.... Lol.
Great video. Makes me sad I’ll never get the chance to go down there and see it in person. Seems like you guys find ways to have fun down there. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much! But you never know! But we definitely found ways to keep ourselves entertained! Thank you! :)
Very cool, I very much appreciate you taking the time to make that video :-)
Little did I know as a small child back in the early 60's, the inside of our freezer looked like the ice tunnels at the South Pole!
I was going to make a Hoth joke, but I'm sure you've heard them all by now.
Hahaha I’ve heard a few 😜
😀
This Video reminds me of hoth too 😄🤗
@@GoneVenturing Can you show us the sky ice.
binge watched this "series". Great content!
Very cool video, pun totally intended! Love the indigo ice! Thanks to both of you.
Totally reminds me of the Hoth base at the beginning of Empire Strikes Back.
Interesting video about the Ice Tunnels at the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station. The tunnel temperature of minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit is far colder than a home freezer that runs about 0 degrees Fahrenheit.
Thanks! And yeah, it’s real cold 🙌
Which is why they don’t keep icecream outside, it is too cold.
Really interesting video ! Thanks for your efforts.
Best one yet brother!! Ice crystals where freaking awesome 🤘👍
So peaceful there! I love it. I could see myself working there even when...
(lights go out)
OH MY GOD! WHAT HAPPENED! ARE WE GONNA DIE!!!
nice tour. I spent two summers working in the tunnels, worked on blocking off the side tunnels at 8:30
Thank you!! But that's really cool! So is that where the aliens are? :P
Why were they blocked off?
¢hippy Kidd Did you not see the inscription made with blood? 🙃
What a great job you have. Awesome!
this was special. Thank you for sharing. keep up the good work!!
Unbelievably cool!
Is the sturgeon still down there? I had the opportunity to go down there one season while deploying IceTop. There weren't as many shrines down there. But I do remember the pig's head (with sunglasses), and a frozen bottle of Crown Royal, and of course the sturgeon.
We called the ice crystals "poosicles" because they were really only there in any significant amount around where the outflow was dumping into the old rod-well. As I remember the new fresh water rod-well was connected and commissioned a few years after my trip, so your current outflow is probably filling the rod-well that I drank out of.
It is indeed! And those shrines as all still that. But you're probably right about the Rod-Well as well! But that's really cool! I need to ask though, what's IceTop??
@@GoneVenturing IceTop is the surface array to IceCube. At the top of all the strings for IceCube are two tanks, each with a 600 gallon block of optically clear ice and two of the IceCube DOMs embedded in them. (Is there still a DOM just inside the entrance to the station?)
Great video, very interesting and great choice of music for setting the mood of this mysterious walk through the tunnels. Great job
Such a solitary yet cool job!
You can thank me for the pink lawn flamingos 🦩
This was really interesting to see, and even if it hadn't been the whole video is worth it just for those amazing ice crystals at the end of the tunnel!
Is it weird that I couldn't help but chuckle every time you said something was "cool"?
ok ,great video,.... thx for doing this
No worries! Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'd love if you check out some of my newer stuff as well, because the video quality has really gone up ☺️
Also, I'm now back in Antarctica so videos from down here will start coming up soon!
How does the water/waste not freeze in those pipes going through that -50C tunnel? Also, I'm surprised you guys use F to measure temperature. I know it's an American station, but still surprising considering it's a scientific outpost. Thank you so much for showing us these really cool areas and doing the station tour. So fascinating!
You might be surprised to hear this, but most of our engineering work for space, defense, etc, still uses imperial as a primary; And after the mars mishaps and others, you can imagine there are (for many institutions) standards for unit conversions during deeper design or mission architecture reviews.
In the end, its really about intuition from familiarization.
I too would like to know how the fresh and waste water does not freeze. If the pipes or liquid was heated you would assume the heat would leak and the inside of the tunnel would be between 30F-40F, which is fairly comfortable in a lot less gear then they have...
These pipes man. Don’t know what they are for? Looking to me like air pipes. No waste or water pipes. Just air shafts. Yea these jokes huh? Totally hidden in plain sight. Your are looking at them and don’t realize it. We look like you 👽👍
The liquid moving makes it difficult if not almost impossible to freeze
I've to watch "The Thing" now! :-D
Thank you for sharing!
Anytime! Thank you for watching!
very cool video... great job. ✌️
Thank you so much! :D
7:21 how warm was it in the shack, how is it heated?
What an adventure! I am Jelly for your experiences!
You must like the cold... I hate the cold so -- Never catch me there. Such a cool place and such a cool video - thanks!
That was awesome!
Puh! I appreciate that you dumped the music in your later videos.
Cool videos in any case!
Hello
At 2:27 the guy is using a handheld radio. Which frequency Band are you using? 2m, 70cm oder any other frequency? thanks
I really enjoyed your use of B-Roll.
Thank you so much!! :)
So this is BELOW the ground? If so, I can't imagine how difficult the planning and construction of this site was. Insane. And it's carved out of the ICE? The walls aren't concrete? And why does the building set elevated? And WHAT ARE ALL THOSE PIPES? I saw one was water - how is it kept from freezing?
The water is moving, so it doesn't freeze
Below _the surface_ yes. You're still 9000+ feet from "ground". The building on the surface is elevated to stop snow buildup from burying it.
Why didn’t you listen to the video as this was explained!!!!!!!!! By the way, the pipes are electrically heated.
@@user-ge4uk9ui8yNO buddy, the pipes are heated.
Calm down 😅 The only dumb question is the one that isn't asked. I bet if I re watched the video I would pick things up I didn't see first time around.
that mlp-shrine XD
How do you keep the water in the pipes from freezing?
3:23 nice sense of humor they've got xD
Love the movie and game references from those scientists.
Doing the whole hvac system on this place would be awesome
There are Bronies in Antarctica? Nice.
Awesome video
very simple video, but i am FASCINATED!!!!!!!!! thank you! :-)
Thank you so much!! I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊😊
Now that's a very cool video
Wow!!!! ❤❤
What camera works at such cold temps?
How does one even apply for a position in one of these stations. Like what prior qualifications and experience do you need to have.
Depends what job you are looking for. There are ads in the papers in Christchurch, New Zealand every year for Mechanics, Chefs etc. They are generally looking for people with multiple skills and can play well with others.
So interesting baffling and confusing all at the same time.
Ice Shrines? I guess I'd go Insane down there to.
What are these jackets that keep them warm in -50 Celsius? Where can I get them?
Back in 56/57 when the first station was built, they dug tunnels for water ect downwards for a way. Are they still open today?
They wouldn't be open anymore. We still melt ice to get our drinking water though! But there are no signs from the original station around, or even really the dome that was decommissioned in 2008.
@@GoneVenturing I cant believe they dismantled the old 50 m dome. Unless they needed that ground, it could have been used for storage or summer outside camp personnel or even an emergency shelter which they have to have in case of fire. They use part of the new building for this now, but its still joined and what if it really is all somehow destroyed? So typical political/govt bureaucracy?
Yes, the dome use to be an issue being buried a bit and they had to keep clearing the snow away but they have heaps of equipment there that can do the job especially if its used as a facility. If the dome was becoming unstable or corroded fair enough it has to come down but perhaps leaving it there a while longer couldnt have hurt if it was ok? The original wooded station from 56- 74? would be buried under a lot of snow unless they removed that and then built the dome.
Imagine Scott/Amundsen, if they saw today the 2 story structure with 2 gyms a music room , large dining room and all the scientific areas the new station has. Its the size of a small university and every piece had to come down by plan e and all the food and fuel from Mckmurdo and from NZ and from the US? No wonder the US is broke and aust too for that matter!
I suspect it is all about the cost of upkeep. The ice is always encroaching.
Wow! What an incredible place!
Those ice crystals were beautiful!
It would have been nice not to have the music though....just the silence of the ice, as you were walking through.
Also, I think it would have been better if you could have talked a wee bit slower, and spent just a bit more time on the shrines. YOU know what they represent, but we don't.
Next time he’ll do better….
I don't know about you, but when my face is freezing and my lungs are convulsing from breathing in very cold temperatures, I tend to hurry my speech (to its own peril) as well.
@@arcanewyrm6295 😅 that's true!
how easy its is to get a job at the south pole !
Also nice video:D
i would like to visit this it looks epic
how cold is it down there?
Very interesting.
What are the ice tunnels for? Was it mentioned in the video? Maybe I missed it?
They are for the water and fuel piping
Wow how cool! How do people bring the puppets/ little ponies over? Is it something they add over many years?
Yeah as far as the ponies go I'm sure they just brought them or shipped them down! Believe it or not, in the summer you can even order things on Amazon! But I'm pretty sure they built the puppets here in the craft room!
How deep are the tunnels🇺🇸
How many flamethrowers do you have there? That's the important question.
It's a thing for sure :)
So cool
9:02 the secret access is just going kool-aid man thru the wall 😅
This is amazing
These videos are priceless! If the climate changes this fast these pictures will be just good old day memories because the lack of any ice. Well done, monsieur!
🙄
How ‘warm’ was the warming room ?
Kathleen Erickson Quite warm actually! They have some heating in there on the wall, so it’s not bad! Not sure about the actual temperature though.
this guy wanted to make a video ,but he was showing more off himself ,...and not the surroundings, i really wanted to know about the warm room as well .....!!!
Where you put snow what is crafted? To Europe?
Kinda a dream place to work and live for me haha
How warm is the warming shack, -30F?
Id be way too excited to just start building/digging/cutting my own tunnel network
how thick is the ice over your heads?
Awesome content
How can I work there?
Cool⚡
How does this white ice work?
You can carve it but it's stable to build in?
How long are the tunnels? How far did you walk?
Is the fuel kerosene?
Do these tunnels suffer from the same encroachment/collapse that plagued Camp Century in Greenland? The ice sheet is always slowly moving even at the South Pole too right?
Yes it is. They have to replace the stake at the actual South Pole now and again. It is just visible from the building. There is a ceremonial barber’s pole with a shiny ball on top closer to Amundsen-Scott base.
Is it cold at the south pole?
Is that a serious question?
No Yellow snow shrine ?
;) Hello from close in the neighborhood Australia
I was wondering that do you have any freezer there?
Very cool! Pun not intended
Awesome video just how extensive are these tunnels?
Not too crazy long. They're maybe a mile total or something? Maybe a bit less. I honestly don't remember the number. Josh told me, but it's been like a year since I was down there.
Thanks for responding to my question so quickly.Antartica would be cool place to visit.
oldgordo61 No worries!! And yeah, it’s really great down there. I’m heading back in a couple months and I’m really excited. Haha
did you see the`sky
ice wall
Everybody Gangsta down there, until the first Shoggoth appears! Tekeli li, Tekeli li!
I’ll be waiting 😜
love it