At -100 degrees F, you can burn up to 5,000 calories a day, and with winter at less than 1% humidity, your body will lose water just breathing. This is Antarctica, where close-knit communities of scientists, engineers, and hardened field vets have forged an existence unlike anything on our planet, fighting brutal conditions to conduct crucial science.
A comic tale of eccentric Michael Sleep (Pearce Quigley) who, since his darling Clea disappeared seven years ago, has lived a very ordinary life. He eats Shreddies, works in a DIY store, visits dad Brian (Michael Palin) and hopes for Clea to return. That
