Hell On Earth ; at Minus 115c Metal Snaps, Your Nostrils Freeze, Water Is Even More Precious Than Gold - and Men Are Driven to Murder. Welcome To...

Daily MailJuly 06, 2004

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HURRYING to pack up camp, I flung the remains of the boiling water out on to the ice. The temperature was hovering at minus 40 degrees Celsius, but there was no wind and no cloud cover.

The sky was glittering blue and in front of me, 500 miles of polar plateau stretched towards the South Pole in a horizon of crystal.

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Hell On Earth ; at Minus 115c Metal Snaps, Your Nostrils Freeze, Water Is Even More Precious Than Gold - and Men Are Driven to Murder. Welcome To...

As I poured out the fluid, squinting in the dazzling light, I saw a sight that my mind could scarcely comprehend. The splash of boiling water had frozen before it had even hit the ice, forming an icicle that fell through the air.

Welcome to life in the deep freeze.

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