How Antarctic Crews Sleep, Shower & Eat for 6 Months Without Sun

In February, the last plane leaves the South Pole. About fifty people stay behind, the sun sets for six months, and nothing new arrives until November. How do you sleep when there is no morning? Where does the water come from in one of the driest places on Earth? How long are you allowed to shower? And what do you eat in June, when the last fresh food is gone? In this video, we go inside the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to see how the winter crew actually lives: the rooms on stilts, the rodwell that melts centuries-old ice into drinking water, the shower ration, the waste that goes back into the ice, the hydroponic growth chamber that grows the only fresh food of the winter, and what happens when someone gets sick with no plane able to land. If you have ever wintered on the Ice, tell us what people get most wrong in the comments. Subscribe to Cold Shift for weekly documentaries on life and work at the bottom of the world.