Ariel Waldman

You have a cafeteria and stuff like that.

But then when I was working in the Dry Valleys, I'd fly out on a helicopter to this area that's so Mars-like, so different.

And I would be out there with maybe five or six other people.

We'd all be camping in tents and

And that would be our whole group.

And so we would share meals together.

But a lot of times, you know, I'm filming this documentary entirely by myself.

And so what would happen is we'd wake up in the morning, we'd see each other for breakfast.

My teammates would go on like a 10 mile hike, you know, sampling all these little creepy crawlies that are in the soils in Antarctica.

And

I would go and take my film equipment and start setting up for the day in freezing temperatures.

And I was really alone.

So in the Life on Earth series on PBS, like when you see me talking to camera in Antarctica, I am literally just talking to my camera.

There's nobody else around.

They're not a single soul.

Like I'm self-filming.

I'm here in the dry valleys of Antarctica because it's one of the most unique places on the entire planet.

A lot of my days were completely by myself, but you at least get to have still like shared meals with a small group of people.

I would have.

I don't know that I would.