Almost two kilometres of ice covers Antarctica, the coldest and emptiest continent on Earth. Humans and wildlife can cohabit in a peaceful, international brotherhood because the 1959 Antarctic Treaty protects the region from mineral exploitation and militarisation, and preserves it for science. Travel to the Vostok base at the magnetic South Pole and find out what draws some people again and again to isolation in Antarctica for months on end. Penguins, walruses, ice-cold drinking water and permafrost. What is it like to live 11 months in eternal cold, isolation and far from all civilization?
