Stephen Davis

NASA, when it wants to observe how people might react on a long mission to Mars, looks at what happens at the South Pole.

NASA, when it wants to observe how people might react on a long mission to Mars, looks at what happens at the South Pole.

NASA, when it wants to observe how people might react on a long mission to Mars, looks at what happens at the South Pole.

It's well known that there was a psychological condition of winter over that people really suffer. It's that people have been in conflict, in battle, have a thousand yard steer, which means you're trying to engage with them and they're just looking off like this. And people get that into Antarctica or they become obsessed with things or they become morose or isolated. They also can drink heavily.

It's well known that there was a psychological condition of winter over that people really suffer. It's that people have been in conflict, in battle, have a thousand yard steer, which means you're trying to engage with them and they're just looking off like this. And people get that into Antarctica or they become obsessed with things or they become morose or isolated. They also can drink heavily.

It's well known that there was a psychological condition of winter over that people really suffer. It's that people have been in conflict, in battle, have a thousand yard steer, which means you're trying to engage with them and they're just looking off like this. And people get that into Antarctica or they become obsessed with things or they become morose or isolated. They also can drink heavily.

Getting toasty is the favorite saying down there. Getting toasty is where you've kind of gone to another place and maybe you actually need help. You actually need counseling, but there's no counseling available because you're stuck there.

Getting toasty is the favorite saying down there. Getting toasty is where you've kind of gone to another place and maybe you actually need help. You actually need counseling, but there's no counseling available because you're stuck there.

Getting toasty is the favorite saying down there. Getting toasty is where you've kind of gone to another place and maybe you actually need help. You actually need counseling, but there's no counseling available because you're stuck there.

So a lot of people get toasty and numbers of people come out of the experience of wintering over having to get counseling when they return to the west of the world.

So a lot of people get toasty and numbers of people come out of the experience of wintering over having to get counseling when they return to the west of the world.

So a lot of people get toasty and numbers of people come out of the experience of wintering over having to get counseling when they return to the west of the world.

We spoke to one of the doctors who had been down there. He was a highly competent doctor, but he only discovered on the plane down there, they said, oh, and by the way, you also have to do dentistry, which he'd never done in his life.

We spoke to one of the doctors who had been down there. He was a highly competent doctor, but he only discovered on the plane down there, they said, oh, and by the way, you also have to do dentistry, which he'd never done in his life.

We spoke to one of the doctors who had been down there. He was a highly competent doctor, but he only discovered on the plane down there, they said, oh, and by the way, you also have to do dentistry, which he'd never done in his life.

Infamously, in the late 50s, at one of the Russian bases, this was a story I thought was an Antarctic myth and apocryphal, but actually turned out to be true. Two Russians were playing chess and also drinking heavily. One left and came back and accused the other of moving something while he was gone, and so he killed him. It was a murder. Then covered up by the Russian authorities,

Infamously, in the late 50s, at one of the Russian bases, this was a story I thought was an Antarctic myth and apocryphal, but actually turned out to be true. Two Russians were playing chess and also drinking heavily. One left and came back and accused the other of moving something while he was gone, and so he killed him. It was a murder. Then covered up by the Russian authorities,

Infamously, in the late 50s, at one of the Russian bases, this was a story I thought was an Antarctic myth and apocryphal, but actually turned out to be true. Two Russians were playing chess and also drinking heavily. One left and came back and accused the other of moving something while he was gone, and so he killed him. It was a murder. Then covered up by the Russian authorities,

who then, for a long time, I don't know whether they still do, banned the playing of chess in Antarctica. In another infamous incident, again involving Russians and drinking, two Russians were at a two-person base in the middle of nowhere. One liked to read books, and they weren't getting on these two guys.

who then, for a long time, I don't know whether they still do, banned the playing of chess in Antarctica. In another infamous incident, again involving Russians and drinking, two Russians were at a two-person base in the middle of nowhere. One liked to read books, and they weren't getting on these two guys.