SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: The day after I arrived, I sorted out how to join the South Pole Fire Brigade and the first "meeting" I attended included a tour of the snow tunnels that house and provide access to the sewage and waterlines that run under the station to provide utilities to some of the outlying buildings.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: The lighting wasn't that great for photography, but it was interesting to see the texture of the snow walls. There's a special machine that was brought down to carve out these square tunnels.
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA: Sara is another new recruit with me and we didn't have our bunker gear yet so we wore our issued ECW (Extreme Cold Weather) gear. The temperature in the tunnel is between -55F where we started and drops down to about -65F at the deepest point. There's no wind chill, so that's nice. The frost on Sara's eyelashes, face cover and hat is the condensation of her own breath freezing when it hits her.
