The South Pole

The only way to get to the South Pole is by the Hercules airplane, the South Pole was about 850 miles from the camp. On the flight she passed over the Beardmore Glacier and the Transantarcics. The first thing that you saw when you exit the plane is a poster board with Elvis on it and a signpost that says "Graceland". The bathrooms had strict rules about the restroom toilets and showers, you were limited to a 2 minute shower twice a week. The altitude at the South Pole is 2,850 meters or 9,300 feet, it is a piece of ice that is about one third of the height of Mount Everest. The atmosphere at is at its shallowest at the poles, so combined with the elevation and the shallow atmosphere, the body gets about half of its normal oxygen supply. At tho pole, there was the actual marker of the South Pole, which shifts about 30 feet each year, and the ceremonial pole which consists of a banner of flags with a chrome soccer ball on top of a striped barber pole.