This Is Why You Can’t Go To Antarctica

"Antarctica... Come for the cold... stay because you're frozen solid." (Antarctica Chamber Of Commerce)

Man, I want to hear the account of the first guy to see a glacier bleeding. "Uhh... Captain? I think we should go back. NOW."

Reasons why you can't go Antarctica: A) you will freeze your balls off and die B) You will disturb the penguins that are hunting for neutrinos.

A moment of silence for Robert Falcon Scott………/falcon scream.

Shackleton and crew were stranded on the ice for over 16 months. The ship was trapped for nine(9) months before it was crushed by the pack ice. It was six months later that they landed a boat on Elephant Island, where the crew awaited rescue while Shackleton and his boat could reach South Georgia island and arrange to rescue the entire crew.The final rescue from Elephant Island was over two years after the expedition left England.

Shackleton: I'm recruiting some Dogs for another Antarctic expedition. Dogs: 👀

I wanted to be a polar explorer since early grade school. There's not a big market for that, but I was fortunate to spend a year at the Amundsen-Scott (South Pole) Station as a radio operator. Joined the 300 Club there -- go from the sauna at +200⁰ to outside when it's -100⁰ or colder. Was also extremely fortunate to visit the Falkland Islands, S. Shetland Islands, S. Georgia, S. Orkneys and Heard Island. Great experiences.

Antarctica lore is so tasty High jump, blood falls, ancient pyramids, hollow earth it’s all way better than most lore people make nowadays

Amundsen did what most British explorers failed to do. He read the log books of every failed Polar (North Pole) expedition and learned every possible lesson as to why they failed. He noticed that in many cases the Inuit and other Native people of the North were able to rescue sailors when that number was small so he went out and studied the harness type for dog sleigh from the Natives of Greenland and Canada using what he though were the best of each design and he learned how to live in the North as they did including how to build igloos. He learned to travel light as British explorers would lug around with them heavy dishes and cutlery which was exhausting work. He had a ship designed called the Fram which had a strong hull that would pop up above the ice if it formed around it instead of being crushed and on his way to the pole he left cashes of seal meat to feed the crew on its return trip. So while Shackleton had a ship called Nimrod, Scott acted like one with his poor planning.

"Deep Lake" - named by the same linguistic equilibrists that gave us The Rocky Mountains, The Big Blue River and The Great Sandy Desert.

An Aphex Twin and a black metal joke in the same video? Highly approve.

You'd swear that the dogs were part of the meal plan in most of these expeditions

I actually have a 10 year plan im working on to go to antarctica. No joke: I'm a chef, saving up money and actively working towards moving to new zealand. Become a citizen there and then apply to become a chef at the antartica reseach base. Its been a dream I've had for quite some time now

"For scientific discovery, give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel, give me Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when you are seeing no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton." - Sir Raymond Priestley

The hawk sound every time you said "Falcon" killed me😂

My father lived and worked in Antartica during the 1980’s for the Australian Antarctic Division at Mawson base located at Holme Bay. He was a combat engineer during the Vietnam War so he was doing construction work, and said the base was for climatic and environmental research… but he would say that as a government shill and really he was there to man the ice wall and stop flat earthers from discovering the truth. 😂

A Norwegian flag wasn't the only thing that Scott found at the South Pole. He also found a handwritten note from Amundsen, addressed to him, asking him to inform the Norwegian king of Amundsen's success at beating the British to the South Pole... apparently because Amundsen had other things to do before returning to Europe

I thought the reason I couldn't go was because I was broke as fudge, but thank you for bringing even more reasons to my attention.

How very interesting Admiral Byrd's mission to Antarctica in 1946 called Operation Highjump is not mentioned. At the time, the largest Naval mission in US history and no mention of it by Joe. According to some of the men who came back they were attacked and men were killed and ships were sunk. Even Admiral Byrd, who at the time was the most decorated Naval officer in the US military, came back a different man and he said some very interesting things. There is another very interesting story that Joe didn't mention. A more recent incident involving a team of scientists from McMurdo that went missing only to show up a week later and were themselves very reluctant to talk about what happened to them. The military personal who were responsible for recovering and flying them back to base even said something traumatic happened to them or they witnessed something traumatic. Oh yeah, what about Buzz Aldrin's tweet he sent out after going down there that said there is evil in Antarctica. Hmmm. Quite a bit Joe missed.

Lesson: focus on the goal and travel as light as possible.