I’m so envious! Such a special place. Steve, you’re doing everything I’d love to do if I had my life all over again. Hearing about McMurdo and Palmer stations and your stays summer and winter. I’d have to pinch myself to believe it if I found I was in ice tunnels at the South Pole! I can’t believe how big it is. It always appeared to be a big dome, with a wide entrance from the outside, leading to - I imagined - fairly compact facilities. Do people still have a skinny dip into water from a hole cut in the ice on the winter solstice? That couldn’t be from the South Pole as there’s no sea, but I’ve seen videos of people doing it.

@@moiraatkinson They do the "ice plunges" at McMurdo Station and Palmer Station, Moira, but at South Pole we have the South Pole 300. When the temp gets below MINUS 100 degrees F, we jump in a sauna set above 200 degrees F and warm up our core for about 30-40 minutes before walking outside of the station and walking around the geographic South Pole (90 degrees, zero minutes South) and, then, back to the sauna. Takes about 10-12 minutes and in circling the geographic South Pole you walk through all time zones on earth. A 300 degree temperature difference is not something everyone has a chance to experience! I did it in boots, hat, muffler, gloves and Grinch boxer shorts! Others skip the shorts. I opted for decorum. : )

@@steveallerding4909 I think I would too 😊. It’s funny how it takes quite a while before you realise 90 deg is only a theoretical point, you can’t exactly pinpoint it on a map. I started to think about this when I watched a light aircraft on TV take some people to the North Pole. When he got to 89 deg, the pilot was looking for somewhere to land.and thought, he’s not even waiting to reach 90. But you can’t can you? Same as, I can’t find 90 deg on Google earth. The map goes to 89.9, then moving the mouse around, you find you’re on 89.8 and so on. Because how big is this place “90 deg”? A pinprick? I suppose all you can do is stand on top of it and think, the Pole is somewhere under my boots! That’s my philosophy lecture for today anyway 🤣. Sometimes I wish I was from the US, then I’d maybe have had a chance to live and work within the Antarctic circle. Otherwise I guess you need to be some exceptional scientist to get there. I used to think McMurdo was a military base - is that the case?

How far down are the tunnels?

I was about to ask if the tunnels ever shift or shrink or grow due to the ice melting or something, but this kinda answered that. Awesome!

Haha yeah. To each their own though! My escape was making these videos!

Very true. Thanks for the videos, they are a lot more interesting than any doc I've seen on Antarctic research stations.

Thank you!! I really appreciate that!! It was a lot of fun to make them. I had the footage for one more, but I unfortunately had a hard drive failure before I could back it up. Trying to recover it now though, so hopefully there will be one more on the way eventually!

You act as though MLP is a joke and not a serious pursuit.

come on mlp is awesome, and it really helps keep you in a good mood, it makes sense they would have it

Thank you! Yeah, it really is pretty incredible ☺️ Glad you enjoyed it!

That's the Firmament. Some call it Sky Ice. Its solid Oxygen.

@@MrJamezGamez I was looking for this comment. Not to mention they have small airplanes in it. Reminds me of as above so below. I'm sure they know some things don't add up.

Hahaha I’ve heard a few 😜

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This Video reminds me of hoth too 😄🤗

@@GoneVenturing Can you show us the sky ice.

He just said the true.

Show us the ice wall!

I was just thinking of this before he said this ._. does that mean that water/ice blue colour relates to why the sky is blue?

@@MFKR696 That's a good philosophy if you have no choice but to work in those temperatures, but it is also good to contemplate just how extreme it is and have the fear of mortality strike you. In life, reasoning why is the key to living free.

Know the feeling. I can't deal with even basic cold very well and I was born into it. But I would absolutely love to see this place.

I have worked in -55C for hours, with a few intermittent warm up breaks. A small breeze CHANGES EVERYTHING.

There are colder places than the South Pole, which have an awful lot fewer luxuries. I’ve mentioned it in another comment.

@@valthiriansunstrider2540 That guy in the video didn’t look like he was living in a hugely stressful environment. He was walking round in a T shirt FFS and this was the winter skeleton crew. I know it wasn’t the depths of winter, but it wasn’t summer and he went outside briefly in the same T shirt 😳. At -70C flesh freezes in 30 seconds. This little village in Siberia had days when children weren’t allowed outside and it showed one little girl getting ready for school. By the time her mother had finished, the child was as wide as she was tall and needed someone to help her take off all the layers. She looked like the Michelin tyre advert !

Thank you so much! But you never know! But we definitely found ways to keep ourselves entertained! Thank you! :)

Ahh thank you so much! And right?! They’re absolutely stunning 😍

@@GoneVenturing My favorite part was where you guys were like " and here is where the aliens are...." haha seriously! I gotta say that thought crossed my mind when I saw that.

Hahaha I'm glad you liked it! I thought it was a funny idea but then of course I started worrying that someone would take it seriously.... Lol.

Thanks! And yeah, it’s real cold 🙌

Which is why they don’t keep icecream outside, it is too cold.

Anytime! Thank you for watching!

No worries! Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'd love if you check out some of my newer stuff as well, because the video quality has really gone up ☺️ Also, I'm now back in Antarctica so videos from down here will start coming up soon!

Thank you so much! :D

It is indeed! And those shrines as all still that. But you're probably right about the Rod-Well as well! But that's really cool! I need to ask though, what's IceTop??

@@GoneVenturing IceTop is the surface array to IceCube. At the top of all the strings for IceCube are two tanks, each with a 600 gallon block of optically clear ice and two of the IceCube DOMs embedded in them. (Is there still a DOM just inside the entrance to the station?)

Thank you so much!! :)

Thank you!! But that's really cool! So is that where the aliens are? :P

Why were they blocked off?

¢hippy Kidd Did you not see the inscription made with blood? 🙃

You might be surprised to hear this, but most of our engineering work for space, defense, etc, still uses imperial as a primary; And after the mars mishaps and others, you can imagine there are (for many institutions) standards for unit conversions during deeper design or mission architecture reviews.

In the end, its really about intuition from familiarization.

I too would like to know how the fresh and waste water does not freeze. If the pipes or liquid was heated you would assume the heat would leak and the inside of the tunnel would be between 30F-40F, which is fairly comfortable in a lot less gear then they have...

These pipes man. Don’t know what they are for? Looking to me like air pipes. No waste or water pipes. Just air shafts. Yea these jokes huh? Totally hidden in plain sight. Your are looking at them and don’t realize it. We look like you 👽👍

The liquid moving makes it difficult if not almost impossible to freeze

In the side tunnels of course!! :P

They were behind the camera the entire time, you just didn't see them

Gone Venturing the American Government is certainly looking for something very special there... 👽

@@GoneVenturing Tell the carpenters to not digg out any "Thing" the might find down there in the sidetunnles then 😂

Shiva?

Thank you so much!! I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊😊

I’ll be waiting 😜

It's a thing for sure :)

Thank you!! ☺️

Yeah as far as the ponies go I'm sure they just brought them or shipped them down! Believe it or not, in the summer you can even order things on Amazon! But I'm pretty sure they built the puppets here in the craft room!

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Next time he’ll do better….

I don't know about you, but when my face is freezing and my lungs are convulsing from breathing in very cold temperatures, I tend to hurry my speech (to its own peril) as well.

@@arcanewyrm6295 😅 that's true!

The water is moving, so it doesn't freeze

Below _the surface_ yes. You're still 9000+ feet from "ground". The building on the surface is elevated to stop snow buildup from burying it.

Why didn’t you listen to the video as this was explained!!!!!!!!! By the way, the pipes are electrically heated.

@@user-ge4uk9ui8yNO buddy, the pipes are heated.

Calm down 😅 The only dumb question is the one that isn't asked. I bet if I re watched the video I would pick things up I didn't see first time around.

They are for the water and fuel piping

mba2ceo Not really! Though if you wear a balaclava and neck gator you’re generally pretty good. It just doesn’t really allow for talking in the video! 😝

Depends what job you are looking for. There are ads in the papers in Christchurch, New Zealand every year for Mechanics, Chefs etc. They are generally looking for people with multiple skills and can play well with others.