Living at the South Pole | 6 Months of Darkness at -94°F, Home to Just 40 People | 4K Documentary

Living at the South Pole: a 4K travel documentary about life at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, where fewer than 50 people are trapped for 8 months in six months of darkness and temperatures down to minus 94°F (minus 70°C). Every February, the last plane leaves the South Pole. After that, no plane is scheduled to land until spring. The sun sets in March and doesn’t rise again until September. Whatever happens, the winter crew is on its own. In this Antarctica documentary: ❄️ How a winter crew of carpenters, welders, mechanics and cooks keeps the station alive through the polar night ❄️ Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the station’s only doctor, who found a lump in her own breast in 1999 and had to treat herself with her crewmates’ help ❄️ The midwinter airdrop flown over the South Pole in total darkness ❄️ The unsolved death of astrophysicist Rodney Marks, and the methanol mystery still unexplained 25 years later ❄️ The rare winter rescue flights from the South Pole, and the one that was turned down ❄️ The race between Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott, and Scott’s last diary entry ❄️ The 300 Club, the aurora australis, and the IceCube neutrino detector buried 2.5 km under the ice Could you live at the South Pole? Tell us in the comments. Subscribe to Outlier Atlas for more documentaries about the world’s most remote places and the small communities that live there:    / @theoutlieratlas   Sources include the National Science Foundation, the US Antarctic Program’s The Antarctic Sun, the New Zealand coroner’s findings, NBC News, CBS News and Oncology News International. #SouthPole #Antarctica #TravelDocumentary