Streaking to the South Pole
First off, the temperature plunges to 100 degrees below zero. And there are five months of darkness.
But now that he's out, Phil Broughton says there's never a day in his life that he does not think about Antarctica.
In this animation from our partners with the BBC, Broughton, a onetime Silicon Valley worker, talks of the colors at night at the bottom of the globe — and the adventure of bursting from a steaming sauna to run, naked around the South Pole.
His job in Antartica was as a cryogenics technician and volunteer barman, he says.
But, oh, those benefits.
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