Antarctica: An Adventure of a Different Nature

00:00:29 It is summer.

00:03:12 as human beings spread across the planet ...

00:04:11 It was the greatest mystery on Earth.

00:05:53 Explorers came bravely in wooden ships.

00:07:09 the cups they drank from.

00:08:21 that lives here all year.

00:10:08 The ice is six feet thick.

00:11:18 Diving here is agony for the first 20 minutes.

00:14:09 The penguin on land is almost wholly ludicrous.

00:16:53 lashed by sub-zero winds, bellies full of fish and quill ...

00:19:17 Some crevasses are so huge' they could swallow a house.

00:21:11 He survived.

00:22:54 We have scarcely begun to understand our planet.

00:23:58 that becomes more important to us each day:

00:25:04 ice cores tell a simple story.

00:26:18 would thin the planet's protective layer of ozone.

00:27:07 So the research goes on ...

00:30:23 for an airplane

00:31:27 At this altitude, the air is so thin ...

00:33:07 Wind is blowing hard ...

00:33:48 700 miles from the Pole ...

00:34:34 for your dear sake.

00:35:35 part of the new century's Age of Science

00:36:38 The quest continues, driven by the same force ...