this is. nothing. no one to relay messages except. antarctica. winter in the southern hemisphere begins at the same time as the northern summer several times over the short summer season the academics approach the coast of the most remote. of the year. two years worth of food and fuel to the ice stations and take away seasonal crews and aircraft. tanker.

and an aircraft carrier. detailed navigational and operational plans are in place. as arrived and no one can ever know just what to expect from. always comes up with surprises you have to keep your eyes open because there's always something going wrong if it actually goes well for too long i start to worry there's no way antarctica will let you go on like that without incident it's unpredictable. bags containing polar clothing are stored in the freezer when the ship left some petersburg four months ago the weather was rainy and damp most of the time if the bags were to get wet while being loaded they may rot in a warm hold to keep them in optimal condition the clothes are kept ice until they need to get out of there you'll freeze the standard winter outfit consists of four

pairs of shoes. and a winch eater. this one is for winter. the other one is a mid season coat. and this one's for special occasions the coats are much better this time for a look they also have a vest. way turn around. we said no they didn't we wanted the straps to be crossed otherwise they slip off your back. where we were at the same comments every single year but it's not so often that they put things right. most of the. mechanics usually go through about four sets of clothing in a year. to deliver fuel to the most remote and hard to reach stations. is it ok. of course it's ok for work not your wedding.

of course it's a little loose it's almost twice the size of you the other drivers have been many times. the route to the station is the world's most challenging trip one thousand five hundred kilometers from the coast in summer temperatures can reach forty below zero but the record is a staggering minus eighty nine. this route will take about forty days. the trucks can only move very slowly they carry fuel tanks to the highest arctic station which is three and a half meters above sea level but oxygen levels there at. five thousand meters anywhere else are.

actors huge. break in snap and freezing temperatures the most difficult part is the route itself. you can't do anything you can't make the time go faster the process you just pray for the best and hope the truck. possible you just want to be back. so you get back home and in time. the work is difficult but the guys are great and you feel good once everything is done. even now i want to go can't.

come soon enough. on the bridge of a captain. and two helmsmen the crew changes on the way. the crew watches reinforced you have to be twice as vigilant the closer you get to antarctica. for navigation purposes the region is still under explored and icebergs contrived for very long distances. to deal. with these pictures are from nine hundred eighty seven they chronicle the maiden voyage of the academic field of the first diesel electric ice ship to sail to antarctica. first trip was good

a really good one. on the car and then we were in the captain's room three of us having tea. yes i remember that clearly we were having tea at the table was that. i felt a huge bang and fell off the table and the sea spilled everywhere. it was a rock that wasn't shown on the chart. everything was fine in the end when the rocks position was mapped. it is. the one hundred eighty seven obstacle course. the ship literally went through a trial of fire and ice. it was about

four pm during a tea break we had cabbage pies that day i still remember that and then it all happened. this missile. fire broke out in the engine room one of the pipes burst and fuel oil spill down on to the white hot money fold there was a huge fire even though i feel uncomfortable when i hear a fire alarm to change the settings on all our clocks back at home because i can't stand the noise of. the ship went through thick and thin it's the best ship in the whole antarctic never gets the job done it's never failed she's really an incredible ship. it's even written somewhere academic sure that if was the only ship in the world able to reach the north pole alone unaided by an ice breaker who would go to the

polls quite often now but we still have a lot of respect for the arctic region it's a really harsh environment and there are nuclear icebreakers there antarctica is even worse besides we can't use nuclear icebreakers antarctica is much worse than the arctic region more severe this is my twenty six trip to antarctica and i've already been to the arctic twenty five times antarctica is much more interesting this trip is more fascinating and extensive it takes at least six months to get there the arctic region is like a relaxing walk. only takes about a month. in one thousand nine hundred five. once headed for and talked to some of his plan was to be up to six months but in the end he was away for eleven. ship and set sail later than. it was when the crew reached antarctica it cut through the ice close to the shoreline but they soon discovered

that they were too close to crews reaction was well coordinated and fast. as always happens in the weather changed abruptly the ice around the ship stuck together and the vessel became trapped. imagine a sugar bowl or there's been emptied into a hollow there's tons of ice all over the place and the ships just not able to move we fought against it for many days trying to move out of there then the wind came up and the ice blocks started to shift to slightly so we were able to work our way through the coastal ice belt a little it almost cracked the whole we tried to head for the open sea but it was already impassable by that time before my sit well with a. that was when the crew realized they'd be spending winter aboard the ship there's no way to help

a vessel that stuck in an ice trap and so the sum of had to stay just where it was until spring their ship was weak in fact three times weaker than the academic field of this one that might just escape the ice but i'm not really sure. what a formidable field of has never been trapped in ice not even once it's very powerful and when circumstances get really difficult we can rely on it we believe its power will help and save us more. crew changeover in the engine room twenty two people are involved in here the crews .

really. something we have lots of cabbage. we have. two hundred. here we have. some of the. grapes. we get back to. food.

carrots different types of. but of course it's up to stop the yolks going off you have to turn them every two weeks. they may get a little dry at the stations because of the low humidity but they will never go bad . when you put the.

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a wealth of experience in extreme survival to cruise favorite joke is that if the apocalypse should come the economic future of would be the best place to be. drinking water is drawn from the dark and the right to fresh water plants on board heat from the main engine is used to distill seawater to remove the salt. into the destination today the crew will conduct a radio test so far though all the stations remain quiet there are no guarantees yet that they're within range they are growing all antarctica stations is are going to make it feel that i've read. check please respond. progress muni. please respond to you. reading you level for. now is the time to discuss the details plans for unloading all the fuel and food and to evacuate the departing crews from the stations the action plan was devised

some time ago but nothing can be taken for granted in antarctica. we haven't been able to reach if. we couldn't get to the barrier area there was no way to. see. if. we hadn't been able to.

break through. here there were about four miles of. we were breaking it down. from mother nature. through. we can't cut through so much faster. now and last year we couldn't get through when it was just. more than three meters deep then about a meter of snow on top of that they had no choice but. to the ice. from the russian. huge chunk of. the home. to the ocean.

four out of ten fuel tanks were left. to conserve fuel for the whole. after that well wasn't although a few containers with spare parts and some snowmobiles were also lost. everyone. told. the. closer to the progress station. sometimes. too once we had there we were unloading fuel when they started cracking so we had to. we even had to cut it a little it was an emergency and we had to get off quickly it was impossible to turn back because that was close by lots of things happening. we had to wait half an hour at the station. suddenly started

cracking. behind us. the other way. the critical. pull back and wait for. it turned out that the progress station frontal activity was at its peak for ten days and there was intense and heavy snowfall visibility was practically nothing and the flight was zero so we had to wait ten days until it finally stopped. by. talk to. a very short window of time.

the only reliable means of. c. . receives its full of food and fuel supplies. some unexpected events. is downloaded using a special antenna this vital information is used not just to plot the ship's course but to select the right on which to land. still remember the. old from a cracking ice book imagine it lifts off the ice cracks right after it it was

terrifying. taking its first flight. and assembled the ship from. the scientists. from the field station as usual. close to the ship. but the plane is disassembled. when the waves came. it started swinging all the way out. i was doing something down in my cabin. sudden i heard a huge noise out there i went to check it out it was the sure. it was impossible. and the fuel tanks were water was very close within just two meters so we had that aircraft up fast and get it onto the hatch cover thank god we

did it gone the other way it would have caused a lot of trouble now we'll see what the. station has. caused all the trouble at the station may just help us here. as well as the patience of the crew for. the most convenient place.

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nothing can be left until tomorrow because at any moment conditions might change suddenly and without warning. in the northern hemisphere this kind of wind would be called a hurricane but here it's just a regular storm extreme weather like this is common place in antarctica. as soon as their work was done a huge storm rolled in with winds of up to thirty two meters per second the ship has no choice but to wait until it ends it may take a few days though. no longer matters the main tasks have been completed. will be here things went smoothly surprisingly it was over very fast i didn't expect that.

the academic field heads north again to africa after one hundred ninety four days for more than half a year the crew has been out on the open ocean. back of the cape town seaport there's still another twenty eight days or so to petersburg but after antarctica even here feels almost like home. why is the price of gold so high. demand global demand do you think oldest money. know the value of the only place we have to live of the water that we need to survive it's not compared to bill i mean gold we're not going to eat gold we're not going to bait with gold. we're not going to drink up what clearly what amal is and

is in a desperate economic situation absolutely right what we're wrong to do is say therefore any kind of economic development from the outside is going to be a benefit their only purpose is to extract as much money as possible to feed into the global financial system. with me or part of the geo political economic system that's extremely exploited or. first of all is a question whether mining should even be carried out altogether can it be done in a way which doesn't destroy people's lives resources environment and so on will you know those are pretty serious questions mining is not a what a moment problem it's happening in asia in africa and south america in central america in mexico and it's even happening in canada and the united states.

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