the entrance to mossin any hut.e cold preserved the artifacts from a century age the goal of the expedition was to repeat mossin's experiments to measure how the climate changed over the past century. >> storage area. that's the kitchen stove. food preparation area. >> reporter: at first, they were blessed by unusually good weather in one of the windiest places on earth. they made it off the antarctica coast into commonwealth bay. on christmas eve, conditions turned ugly. >> hit by a terrible blizzard and lost our communications didn't we, nicole? >> sure did. >> reporter: the ship found itself trapped in the ice. >> at least it is not snowing. turney joining us on skype from the weather nightmare. you are battling weather conditions? >> very much so. misconception over here that things move at a glacier pace. everything looked all right. sudden leap t suddenly, swung in, instead of breezes we got strong easterly winds. the captain made a decision, christmas eve. realized we needed to send out an alert to help get u