Ariel Waldman

And if someone were to die in Antarctica, which again, people try to be evaluated as best we can to make sure they're not on the verge of dying, but you've got to send a plane down and get them out.

It's not like a regular ship.

You can just

ship them back on.

Usually it's a flight and flights are pretty tricky in Antarctica where the weather can change rapidly and you can have conditions and you just never want to be in a situation where your rescue crew is going to risk their own lives more than they need to so that you don't have further tragedy happening.

So, I mean, tourism is always, I don't know, it's always got that push and pull and I never have a great answer for it either way because I don't want to gatekeep any location.

But at the same time, like, yeah, tourism has an impact and you want to minimize it.

So I don't have an easy answer there.

But if you want to go to Antarctica, there's kind of two main routes.

I'll say three main routes to go.

As a tourist, it's really just about money.

If you've got about 10 grand, you can hop on a ship and those ships go to Antarctica, typically from November to February or March.

You know, you pay 10 grand, you're on a ship for seven to 10 days.

You get to go around the edge of Antarctica.

If it's a smaller boat, you can take a little Zodiac boat and see penguins and stuff.

Tourism is just exploding in Antarctica for better or worse.

And so a lot of people are experiencing Antarctica that way.

But it is really, it's a money thing.

A couple of years, the record for number of tourists in a single season was shattered.

There was over 100,000 tourists in a single Antarctic season yesterday.