In-depth tour of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Field Camp, Antarctica
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- My personal tour of most of the facilities at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Field Camp, Antarctica. Shot during January 2015 while I was working on the DISC Drill with the University of Wisconsin Ice Drill Design and Operations team. For more on my adventures in Antarctica, check out JeffreyDonenfeld.com/Antarctica
Also, be sure to check out my full tour of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station - • Amundsen-Scott South P...
Of all the Arctic and Antarctic videos I’ve viewed this is the only one that actually shows how living/working in this environment is designed. Absolutely outstanding and greatly appreciated!
That`s what I thought too. Most videos focus on the scientific part, but I`m usually more interested in the way of living, like all that "normal" stuff, like eating, bathroom, socializing, leisure time etc.!
Watched this whole video I have no idea why this is so interesting
iimCzaR because Antarctica is not what we think or have been told. It’s the edge of the world you might say.
I just want to camp out there for a few days
Funny those are my thoughts as well.
I've watched this and his south pole tour videos tons of times. Completely fascinating.
It's cool science + cool tools + camping! That's like all my interests in one
Absolutely insane! That area where the ground is drilled through.....straight out of a movie. My mind is completely blown.
I could watch hours of this kind of content, in particular the stuff with living quarters and dining areas! Incredibly interesting…
Reminds me a bit of the ARMY training area .
I understand the value of the research done in Antarctica .
Thanks for sharing .
I am quite surprised that they didn't provide electric power to the tents. You have that huge diesel generator running... Even allowing you 1 amp at 120v would give you a ton more options for electrics.
I would love to bed bedded down with a good book in that tent with a full on storm blowing outside, heaven!
Heaven in hell......
I would want to have a tablet with bunch of movies in it and my cigarettes weed and sodas..and also a magic carpet that can fly me anywhere.
Why don't you just do it in your back yard during a blizzard?
0 Boy.....What If You had to make a Doodie ..?
I mean, sounds nice except ya know, I'd be worried about a failure of the tent or being buried alive in snow and suffocating.
I was at WAIS 2005/2006 season supporting CRESIS and its polar radar project. It is impressive to see how the arch is now buried. I remember when it went up and how tall it was.
Thanks Richard!
so richard where is your sharing video 2005 and 2006??
Richard Stansbury how tall was it?
Richard Stansbury low to know how tall it was?
Science, exploration, survival and technology. I too find these videos very interesting and would love to have done something like this in my life. Really cool. Thanks for these videos and good luck to you.
They never let you know were that ancient city found by Chile explorers the one is forbiden to visit or get near
29:00 ... Serious science dude doing some serious science stuff. 😂
The ingenuity of all this … it’s mind-blowing!
thanks so much for the tour man, youre so chill and nice! ive recently been struck by the urge to go work in Antarctica and am just scouring the internet for vids on what to expect for when i head out there. this is by far one of the best video tour ive come across.
Hey so did you ever go?
Hope you made it! Mcmurdo is a good place to be!
Wow - the tent living quarters seem so primitive! Seems like they could fly down a big aircraft that is retrofitted with dormers then tow it occasionally when the snow level rises so it doesn’t submerge like the quonset did.
At last! This is a perfect show of how things are getting done in Arc. Good work. You tell us what is what and so on. Keep it up, like this.
awesome video, i was at WAIS in nov. of 14 and dug those ramps to the building with keith the other equipment operator there. always wondered what was inside.
thank u jeff. i really enjoyed this. you did a good job. and you certainly know your technical terms and so forth. most impressive. i enjoy learning about antartica. thank u again and keep warm and keep safe.
Awesome video. Thanks for doing this. Family loved it
These are some very cool documentaries. I love watching these type of things!
I am a 30 year journeyman wireman(IBEW electrician) excellent pipe work on the walls by the distribution board. Also for a scientist you have construction savvy. That’s rare. Cheers
Very interesting, I have to say, that despite all the cold that surrounds, its all look relatively cosy especially crew quarters, all the modules.
Very nice video. Watching it on my 65 Inch TV is as if I was there as well. I would love to visit Antarctica one day. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the tour it was extremely interesting.
Really like this guy,..and I find his videos quaint and informational,..thank you for posting these Jeffrey! you have soooo much energy,..but I would love to live in these remote areas
Wow thanks for sharing. not many people can see antarctica up close.
Thanks for sharing! Great job and narration - and VERY interesting! Great way to see the antarctic without actually freezing!
North Dakota thanks for watching... glad ya enjoyed it! :)
Great video!! Jeffrey I follow your blog and now subscribed to your you tube. Your videos are really cool. Thank you for taking the time to make them.
+DertyD88 Thanks Derty!
Great video,good job,beautiful scenery!!!
Loved the tour! Thanks for making this
Thank you for sharing! It's beautiful. ❤
Thank You for your time filming and work at the south Pole
I wish I could be there
He's on Antarctica, not the south pole. Huge difference.
I went down inside siple 2, there was a siple one before that. Siple 3 was the last station before they took it down. There were steel corrugated tubes with access ladders to get between levels, to look into the past research. The snow drifts packs into the ice, eventually burying the level and crushing the access tubes to the past.
Very interesting - you are quite an explorer. You have a very nice manner and I have enjoyed many of your educational videos. Thank you Jeffrey for your time and effort sharing.
+sally-ann Williams Thanks Sall-Ann!
Very cool! Thanks for the tour, very interesting. subbed
Wow! Thanks for the tour.
Awesome Video...Thanks for the Tour...Stay warm!
Thank you for making this. Very interesting and informative.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
Awesome video; really interesting place to live and work.
I have watched many others that you did , they are excellent, you managed to show us something few of us ever would. Thank you !!! .
Very interesting video of Antarctica. Thanks for posting the video
Marvelous &excellent job lovely jeffry
Hear about a special thermal metal sheets when one side exposed to ice the other side became hot like battery polar sheets in Canadadian research .... keep it up take care , thanks to you alot.with my best wishes .cu.
Wow. didn't know I needed a POV from Antarctica. This is pretty awesome/scary
Extremely interesting. Would love to do a stint there!
thanks for sharing. love it.
Thank you so much for making this video I thoroughly enjoyed it
What a hoot
Very interesting thank you for sharing.
Love the detail
Great Video thanks for sharing.
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I enjoyed this video.
Thumbs up 👍
From Los Angeles California USA 🇺🇸
I wish, I can go or be their!
Class video,very well done x
This is amazing.. LOVE IT!!!! THX u
perfect video! great stuff
11:48 "..beyond me is just nothing.." TY. I agree!
Outstanding video! Really interesting! I had to pause it at the "p" bottle... I was laughing for about 5 minutes. "It's not something you want to get confused with your other bottles." Aww man that made my stomach hurt. :)
Thanks, very interesting. I'd like to find out what you found out from the ice bores.
There is one at the south-pole I hope you will get to check out.
Oh man, your video makes me wish I’d did a better job with my WAIS Divide videos. Great job. Concise and interesting.
That was a great 36 minutes well spent 🙂
...so what happens when there's a storm and visibility is so low, you can't see more than a few feet in front of you? In weather like that, you're forbidden from going outside in one of the larger bases. But here...you'd get lost, even leaving or trying to find your tent....
This is a field camp. I would venture that they aren't going to occupy it when storms are likely. January is summer down there, storms are probably pretty rare that time of year.
That was so so so interesting. I saw everything! You shot the vid on some beautiful days! Thanks for giving us such a great and clear insight 😊😊
I want to do something like this. Be like the mechanic or engineer there permanently. I enjoy the stillness and the silence of winter. And being able to be isolated in a tent during a storm just to past time or rest. That's my dream.
most people's dreams do not come true. Buy Bitcoin B4 it's too fucking late/
You were in the Antarctic on January 17 and was in Disney World Florida that day. XD. You're roughing it out there, but it certainly looks like fun to me.
Are you still out there?? Hope you're still filming...great gig!👏👏👌👌
This is really cool. I had a random dream last night that I was living in antarctica and decided to research it a bit. I stumbled across your blog in the process and then these video's. Really interesting perspective and you had quite a few obstacles to overcome to get to experience it - thanks for sharing! One thing I wondered while watching this is what happens if there is a storm or high winds while you are in your tent? I mean, what stops you from being buried by snow over night?
+J.L. Allen Not much. It just doesn't actually snow that much. Usually the winds are high enough that any snow tha falls gets swept away. Most of the accumulation around the tents is from blowing snow and ice across the surface that gets trapped by air swirls around tents and objects, and then cements in place.
The sun out tje tent top looks killer
Good stuff!
I found this interesting. I had no idea how things were there.
I love the word vestibule!
Very informative
Those generator noises would be me nuts
You are very brave, have you seen The Thing? That is where they put it back. Can’t imagine trudging across the pole. It looks cold.
So do ppl abandon those arch buildings after a time?
Enjoyed the tour,…
Very interesting video thanks, just one question: why do people live in tents? Why not have a dorm type building or something? Thanks
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An airfield was built on the ice of McMurdo Sound, so that planes could fly between New Zealand and the Antarctic.
very detail, can you explain more on mesh dish internet antenna, the router n switching hub...etc? Are you 6' 3" tall?
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really great and interesting video, thanks for sharing this experience !
I have a question that apparently has not been answered in the video, how it goes for health ? (especially the showers )
what systems are used ?
+MrJ What kind of systems would you like to know about? For showers we have a snow melter, water filter, and water heater - and two normal shower stalls in the wash module, with water-saving showerheads and easy cutoff valves, so you can stop the water while soaping up without having to re-adjust the temperature knob every time.
+Jeffrey Donenfeld
that's exactly what I wanted to know !
thank you for your kind and fast answer
Very cool😀
Would love to visit and help out one day!
Are the tents and function tents setup in a specific way to be stream lined with wind and snow? Is there any local meshnet happening? With good solar access feels like a meshnet would be awesome there. Locally served pages for chat, file access, scheduling, etc
What would you recommend we do if we wish to visit Antarctica?
I always thought a vestibule is a container holding fluids?
So in a really cold blizzard, these tents are actually warm?
Heat
How do you do it
and I live in Canada and have exactly same boots
now do you guys pull everything apart wen the feild camp is done or leave it there ?
So where's your next Antarctic adventure going to take place? Do you plan on working in other extreme, but warmer places, too? Something in the desert, maybe? ;)
Is there any source of heat in the individual tents?
Its been 2 years where are you now?
I was wondering how he keeps his tent warm without a stove? I didn’t see a heater.
Body heat
Why would not they have cleared the s ow each season? We have all seen airport grade s ow blowing operations?
What happens to this field camp in winter?
question. can anyone come to visit for a couple months or is antarctic only open to registered research groups.
You've slept in a tent in the arctic??!! Maybe during the summer season of below -20C your tent kind of trap constant sun heat something?? Can you give some comprehensive explanation to this?
Hi Jeff any chance you can tell me what kind of camera/equipment you are using?
Is there a specific reason why all those tents, containers etc. are at a certain distance from each other, versus all kind of huddled together? There must be I guess, because I don`t see even two tents being kind of set up close to each other. ?
How does your tent get heated? If...
You at this place reminds me of the NSA guy from Z Nation
Good video! Thank you!
How did you find the jobs?
Do you have to have a security clearance?
Do you have to be a govt employee or is private?
+Pat vulk Hi Pat, the full story is at JeffreyDonenfeld.com/Antarctica - check it out, and let me know if you have any specific questions. Cheers!
-Jeffrey