South Pole Diary: The Affects of Extreme Cold

An excerpt from the feature-length documentary "Living in the Shadow of the Moon-Dog: A South Pole Diary" by Paul C. Daniels and Michael Pfaendtner.

In early 2001, just days before Paul C. Daniels left Detroit to spend nine months locked into the most remote and isolated outpost on the face of the planet, he bought a Sony Handy-Cam recorder to keep a video diary of his experience.

He captured the winterover lives of 50 people at the U.S. Antarctic research station "South Pole", located on the highest, driest, coldest continent on earth.

Through equipment failures, conflict, fierce storms, -100F temperatures, hypoxia, and the unexpected illness of the station's doctor, the crew could rely on no one but each other to survive.




Experience a South Pole winterover with Paul C. Daniels.

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[TNTv]

I'm no English teacher but I'm pretty sure it's effects.

[WillForsberg]

my first winter in alaska i pulled a bottle wild turkey out of the trunk at 48 below F and brilliantly took a sip! frostbit my tongue, tonsils, throat all the way down to my weenie hole! whoa, somethin' you only try once..

[dynomike1964]

I bet the Canada Goose store is very busy there.

[simontja]

@walterlv01 -25 Is like +20 compared to -40. Now imagine -80.

[onezeero1]

lol....12 yr old wild turkey....lol

[dahmeredsback]

effects

[SittingMooseShaman]

... 'at juice you squeezed outta that bottle would be near pure alky!

[inc2000glw]

im thinkn they have a porn storage stash

[walterlv01]

I knew there were people stationed down in Antarctica all throughout the polar winters but what I didn't know was that people actually were able to go outside. I always figured that everyone was on lockdown inside the compound all winter. Fascinating. I can't even imagine what -80 air feels like. I've been in -25 in Manitoba and thought I was going to freeze to death.

[WellHiFoLLLks]

It's been below zero here all week, and yet I watch this and feel warm here!

[canmutlu]

@TNTv Yeah, I thought it was going to be about feelings/emotions and affective impact of being stationed in McMurdo.

[sgtfusion]

haha in like minus 4 that would happen you idiot