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Antarctica: the coldest, most windswept and desolate of all the world’s continents. This is a place like no other, where the coldest temperature on our planet was recorded (-79˚C) and where winds can gust up to 150mph. 98% of the Antarctic land mass is covered by moving ice in places up to 3000m thick. Unsurprisingly, Antarctica has no indigenous population. Nonetheless, it maintains a small community of mad scientists; a smaller group of even madder folk go there on holiday!

This would prove to be an entirely different experience from the ‘last degree’ trips I had already completed to the North Pole. The two polar environments, as I was to discover, offer entirely different wilderness experiences.