Category : Life on the Ice

Working as a courier at McMurdo Station transforms all of town into a circuit workout. Get out of the truck. Walk into the building. Climb...

It’s a mild September day in Arvada, CO, a suburb west of Denver, with bluebird, cloudless skies. But the firefighter trainees are perspiring heavily in...

Ann Curry and the Today Show crew reporting live out of McMurdo Station make one last effort to reach the South Pole. Weather has grounded...

A Catholic priest from New Zealand, the Rev. John Jolliffe led the Midnight Mass on Christmas at the Chapel of the Snows at McMurdo Station....

Snowmobile mechanics Bob Sawicki and Toby Weisser at McMurdo Station did some heavy duty dumpster diving this season to assemble the hippest ride on rubber...

The South Pole International Film Festival lets Polies exercise their creativity in their free time — and document this unique living environment at the same...

You’re alone for the next eight months of the year at the bottom of the world. What do you do to keep busy? You rock...

Adult students in a New Orleans literacy class are swapping stories and e-mails with a group of people spending the dark, cold winter in Antarctica....

Entertainment can be hard to come by in Antarctica. Those spending the winter on the continent are participating in an international film competition sponsored by...

A fire claimed one life, injured two people, and destroyed a two-story building at the Russian Antarctic Expedition (RAE) research station Progress in East Antarctica...