th their personal tour guide none other than antarctic explorer peter mulgrew. >> everybody up here is saying this is just like a great new world. i'm sure it is for all of you back there. >> because air new zealand's dc-10s never touch down during the eight-hour flight, pressure is on the pilots to only descend as low as safely possible. >> he was trying to show his passengers something for what they paid for. after all, this was official sightseeing flight. >> there's an expectation that when you get on that airplane, i expect that we're going to fly down and i will see the penguins and i will see terrain and i will really get to be a tourist and sight see. >> antarcti asharctica is as das beautiful. this deputy police officer is stationed at scott base at the foot of mount arabis. >> i had to keep a radio log of all the field parties that were out and what they were doing just for safety sake. >> 40 minutes from their frozen destination, passengers on flight 901 are standing at the windows eager for their first glimpse of the endless expansion of ice. captain collins radios to find