I enjoyed revisiting the Ice Tunnels at South Pole. I spent hours down there in 2015 helping to tear down and remove the old "warm-up hut" which was being crushed by the moving ice, enlarging the area and moving ice in preparation of the building of the new "warm-up hut" and putting all of the medical supplies in it. I loved it down there! It was nice to see Josh who was with me for the winter at Palmer Station in 2018 and I recognized Eric's voice at the other end of Josh's radio. He also was with me and Josh at Palmer and I ran into him in Christchurch when I was heading down to McMurdo in November 2019. I'll see Josh when I head back down to Palmer Station for this summer season there. LOVE these experiences! Thanks for sharing them.

@moiraatkinson

2 жыл бұрын

I’m so envious! Such a special place. Steve, you’re doing everything I’d love to do if I had my life all over again. Hearing about McMurdo and Palmer stations and your stays summer and winter. I’d have to pinch myself to believe it if I found I was in ice tunnels at the South Pole! I can’t believe how big it is. It always appeared to be a big dome, with a wide entrance from the outside, leading to - I imagined - fairly compact facilities. Do people still have a skinny dip into water from a hole cut in the ice on the winter solstice? That couldn’t be from the South Pole as there’s no sea, but I’ve seen videos of people doing it.

@steveallerding4909

2 жыл бұрын

@@moiraatkinson They do the "ice plunges" at McMurdo Station and Palmer Station, Moira, but at South Pole we have the South Pole 300. When the temp gets below MINUS 100 degrees F, we jump in a sauna set above 200 degrees F and warm up our core for about 30-40 minutes before walking outside of the station and walking around the geographic South Pole (90 degrees, zero minutes South) and, then, back to the sauna. Takes about 10-12 minutes and in circling the geographic South Pole you walk through all time zones on earth. A 300 degree temperature difference is not something everyone has a chance to experience! I did it in boots, hat, muffler, gloves and Grinch boxer shorts! Others skip the shorts. I opted for decorum. : )

@moiraatkinson

2 жыл бұрын

@@steveallerding4909 I think I would too 😊. It’s funny how it takes quite a while before you realise 90 deg is only a theoretical point, you can’t exactly pinpoint it on a map. I started to think about this when I watched a light aircraft on TV take some people to the North Pole. When he got to 89 deg, the pilot was looking for somewhere to land.and thought, he’s not even waiting to reach 90. But you can’t can you? Same as, I can’t find 90 deg on Google earth. The map goes to 89.9, then moving the mouse around, you find you’re on 89.8 and so on. Because how big is this place “90 deg”? A pinprick? I suppose all you can do is stand on top of it and think, the Pole is somewhere under my boots! That’s my philosophy lecture for today anyway 🤣. Sometimes I wish I was from the US, then I’d maybe have had a chance to live and work within the Antarctic circle. Otherwise I guess you need to be some exceptional scientist to get there. I used to think McMurdo was a military base - is that the case?

@zachh5812

2 жыл бұрын

How far down are the tunnels?

@dreaminlayers

2 жыл бұрын

I was about to ask if the tunnels ever shift or shrink or grow due to the ice melting or something, but this kinda answered that. Awesome!

Somewhere, there is a skilled worker/scientist who took the journey to the south pole to explore and probe the earth for it's secrets and also thought it a good idea to leave all of their MLP paraphernalia there. One must really contemplate life in extreme places like that.

@GoneVenturing

6 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah. To each their own though! My escape was making these videos!

@Paper-if7hp

6 жыл бұрын

Very true. Thanks for the videos, they are a lot more interesting than any doc I've seen on Antarctic research stations.

@GoneVenturing

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! I really appreciate that!! It was a lot of fun to make them. I had the footage for one more, but I unfortunately had a hard drive failure before I could back it up. Trying to recover it now though, so hopefully there will be one more on the way eventually!

@wordsofcheresie936

3 жыл бұрын

You act as though MLP is a joke and not a serious pursuit.

@psychowolfunit1858

2 жыл бұрын

come on mlp is awesome, and it really helps keep you in a good mood, it makes sense they would have it

I was at the South Pole when a few of the shrines were created. The Amundson bust was one of multiple heads created for the anniversary of the South Pole being reached in 1911. Martin Lewis was the one that was finally able to get the ice to freeze without cracking before the ceremony. Not sure who created the shrine but it was done during the 2011-12 summer season.

Best part.....seeing the ice crystal formations, hanging from the ceiling. Now, THAT was cool! You can actually see them as snowflakes. Cool. Thanks!

@GoneVenturing

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yeah, it really is pretty incredible ☺️ Glad you enjoyed it!

I would get lost staring into that blue ice hole. That has got to be the most beautiful color of blue ever! Thanks for sharing, this was awesome!

@MrJamezGamez

2 жыл бұрын

That's the Firmament. Some call it Sky Ice. Its solid Oxygen.

@dopamineman1384

Жыл бұрын

@@MrJamezGamez I was looking for this comment. Not to mention they have small airplanes in it. Reminds me of as above so below. I'm sure they know some things don't add up.

I was going to make a Hoth joke, but I'm sure you've heard them all by now.

@GoneVenturing

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I’ve heard a few 😜

@TheVampireKit

2 жыл бұрын

😀

@PersonausdemAll

2 жыл бұрын

This Video reminds me of hoth too 😄🤗

@MrJamezGamez

2 жыл бұрын

@@GoneVenturing Can you show us the sky ice.

thank you, something i would have never seen in my lifetime.

"And the earth is flat" wicked timing on your sense of humour.

@onegmsgmailcom

2 жыл бұрын

He just said the true.

@Joshua40

2 жыл бұрын

Show us the ice wall!

@garrettwillett

2 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking of this before he said this ._. does that mean that water/ice blue colour relates to why the sky is blue?

Little did I know as a small child back in the early 60's, the inside of our freezer looked like the ice tunnels at the South Pole!

Like your prayer flags! You definitely are in a nicer place than what I was in in the winter of 1971.

I’m so glad I discovered this channel! Thanks for openly sharing what life is like in one of the most mysterious places on earth! I’m totally watching the rest of your South Pole videos.

This is crazy to watch! Excitment, claustrophobia, mystiriousnes, wonder, respect. I personally could not do this, so thank you and the folks there for sharing this!

Casually walking around in -50C seems insane to me, given that I found -40 degrees Celcius to be genuinely scary. Even breathing became a challenge - even for a person living my whole life north of the Arctic Circle with all the cold winters we get here. I would love to experience the elevated station someday, but those outdoor temperatures will probably keep me too scared to even consider it...

@valthiriansunstrider2540

2 жыл бұрын

@@MFKR696 That's a good philosophy if you have no choice but to work in those temperatures, but it is also good to contemplate just how extreme it is and have the fear of mortality strike you. In life, reasoning why is the key to living free.

@minacapella8319

2 жыл бұрын

Know the feeling. I can't deal with even basic cold very well and I was born into it. But I would absolutely love to see this place.

@dune4433

2 жыл бұрын

I have worked in -55C for hours, with a few intermittent warm up breaks. A small breeze CHANGES EVERYTHING.

@moiraatkinson

2 жыл бұрын

There are colder places than the South Pole, which have an awful lot fewer luxuries. I’ve mentioned it in another comment.

@moiraatkinson

2 жыл бұрын

@@valthiriansunstrider2540 That guy in the video didn’t look like he was living in a hugely stressful environment. He was walking round in a T shirt FFS and this was the winter skeleton crew. I know it wasn’t the depths of winter, but it wasn’t summer and he went outside briefly in the same T shirt 😳. At -70C flesh freezes in 30 seconds. This little village in Siberia had days when children weren’t allowed outside and it showed one little girl getting ready for school. By the time her mother had finished, the child was as wide as she was tall and needed someone to help her take off all the layers. She looked like the Michelin tyre advert !

This is the most amazing thing ive ever seen. The shrines are way cool but those ice crystals....no words.

@GoneVenturing

4 жыл бұрын

Ahh thank you so much! And right?! They’re absolutely stunning 😍

@FeedingWolves

4 жыл бұрын

@@GoneVenturing My favorite part was where you guys were like " and here is where the aliens are...." haha seriously! I gotta say that thought crossed my mind when I saw that.

@GoneVenturing

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I'm glad you liked it! I thought it was a funny idea but then of course I started worrying that someone would take it seriously.... Lol.

Great video. Makes me sad I’ll never get the chance to go down there and see it in person. Seems like you guys find ways to have fun down there. Keep up the good work!

@GoneVenturing

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! But you never know! But we definitely found ways to keep ourselves entertained! Thank you! :)

Excellent! Love the tour. I would have never imagined the complexity of the "underground" tunnel and infrastructure network. Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

10:40 - 11:05 took my breath away, literally. Thank you for sharing.

Totally reminds me of the Hoth base at the beginning of Empire Strikes Back.

So peaceful there! I love it. I could see myself working there even when... (lights go out) OH MY GOD! WHAT HAPPENED! ARE WE GONNA DIE!!!

You can thank me for the pink lawn flamingos 🦩

binge watched this "series". Great content!

this was special. Thank you for sharing. keep up the good work!!

Very cool, I very much appreciate you taking the time to make that video :-)

Very cool video, pun totally intended! Love the indigo ice! Thanks to both of you.

Best one yet brother!! Ice crystals where freaking awesome 🤘👍

What a great job you have. Awesome!

Interesting video about the Ice Tunnels at the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station. The tunnel temperature of minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit is far colder than a home freezer that runs about 0 degrees Fahrenheit.

@GoneVenturing

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! And yeah, it’s real cold 🙌

@teeanahera8949

6 ай бұрын

Which is why they don’t keep icecream outside, it is too cold.

This was really interesting to see, and even if it hadn't been the whole video is worth it just for those amazing ice crystals at the end of the tunnel!

What an adventure! I am Jelly for your experiences!

Such a solitary yet cool job!

Unbelievably cool!

Great video, very interesting and great choice of music for setting the mood of this mysterious walk through the tunnels. Great job

Really interesting video ! Thanks for your efforts.

That was awesome!

Thank you for sharing!

@GoneVenturing

5 жыл бұрын

Anytime! Thank you for watching!

I've to watch "The Thing" now! :-D

This is amazing

Wow!!!! ❤❤

Omg. I didn't even think of conspiracy theories involved with the South Pole until now! That's got to be funny stuff.

There are Bronies in Antarctica? Nice.

Is it weird that I couldn't help but chuckle every time you said something was "cool"?

So cool

ok ,great video,.... thx for doing this

@GoneVenturing

5 жыл бұрын

No worries! Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'd love if you check out some of my newer stuff as well, because the video quality has really gone up ☺️ Also, I'm now back in Antarctica so videos from down here will start coming up soon!

Now that's a very cool video

Love the movie and game references from those scientists.

that mlp-shrine XD

very cool video... great job. ✌️

@GoneVenturing

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! :D

love it

I really enjoyed your use of B-Roll.

@GoneVenturing

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! :)

Awesome video

You must like the cold... I hate the cold so -- Never catch me there. Such a cool place and such a cool video - thanks!

Puh! I appreciate that you dumped the music in your later videos. Cool videos in any case!

how easy its is to get a job at the south pole ! Also nice video:D

Awesome content

Very interesting.

Doing the whole hvac system on this place would be awesome

i would like to visit this it looks epic

Cool⚡

3:23 nice sense of humor they've got xD

Is the sturgeon still down there? I had the opportunity to go down there one season while deploying IceTop. There weren't as many shrines down there. But I do remember the pig's head (with sunglasses), and a frozen bottle of Crown Royal, and of course the sturgeon. We called the ice crystals "poosicles" because they were really only there in any significant amount around where the outflow was dumping into the old rod-well. As I remember the new fresh water rod-well was connected and commissioned a few years after my trip, so your current outflow is probably filling the rod-well that I drank out of.

@GoneVenturing

5 жыл бұрын

It is indeed! And those shrines as all still that. But you're probably right about the Rod-Well as well! But that's really cool! I need to ask though, what's IceTop??

@Sembazuru

5 жыл бұрын

@@GoneVenturing IceTop is the surface array to IceCube. At the top of all the strings for IceCube are two tanks, each with a 600 gallon block of optically clear ice and two of the IceCube DOMs embedded in them. (Is there still a DOM just inside the entrance to the station?)

Where are the aliens?

@GoneVenturing

6 жыл бұрын

In the side tunnels of course!! :P

@nic-hol-assgrain6574

5 жыл бұрын

They were behind the camera the entire time, you just didn't see them

@macacada353

4 жыл бұрын

Gone Venturing the American Government is certainly looking for something very special there... 👽

@hwplugburz

4 жыл бұрын

@@GoneVenturing Tell the carpenters to not digg out any "Thing" the might find down there in the sidetunnles then 😂

@HypnoticHarry

3 жыл бұрын

Shiva?

So interesting baffling and confusing all at the same time.

How does the water/waste not freeze in those pipes going through that -50C tunnel? Also, I'm surprised you guys use F to measure temperature. I know it's an American station, but still surprising considering it's a scientific outpost. Thank you so much for showing us these really cool areas and doing the station tour. So fascinating!

@PyromandanPwnr

2 жыл бұрын

You might be surprised to hear this, but most of our engineering work for space, defense, etc, still uses imperial as a primary; And after the mars mishaps and others, you can imagine there are (for many institutions) standards for unit conversions during deeper design or mission architecture reviews.

@PyromandanPwnr

2 жыл бұрын

In the end, its really about intuition from familiarization.

@mysql50

2 жыл бұрын

I too would like to know how the fresh and waste water does not freeze. If the pipes or liquid was heated you would assume the heat would leak and the inside of the tunnel would be between 30F-40F, which is fairly comfortable in a lot less gear then they have...

@NicGoldenEddie

2 жыл бұрын

These pipes man. Don’t know what they are for? Looking to me like air pipes. No waste or water pipes. Just air shafts. Yea these jokes huh? Totally hidden in plain sight. Your are looking at them and don’t realize it. We look like you 👽👍

@mfrancis33

2 жыл бұрын

The liquid moving makes it difficult if not almost impossible to freeze

Ice Shrines? I guess I'd go Insane down there to.

9:24 one of the most useless doors ever

How many flamethrowers do you have there? That's the important question.

@charliewatts6895

2 жыл бұрын

It's a thing for sure :)

Kinda a dream place to work and live for me haha

Very cool! Pun not intended

nice tour. I spent two summers working in the tunnels, worked on blocking off the side tunnels at 8:30

@GoneVenturing

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! But that's really cool! So is that where the aliens are? :P

@hippykidd1363

4 жыл бұрын

Why were they blocked off?

@stupor_mundi

4 жыл бұрын

¢hippy Kidd Did you not see the inscription made with blood? 🙃

Everybody Gangsta down there, until the first Shoggoth appears! Tekeli li, Tekeli li!

@GoneVenturing

4 жыл бұрын

I’ll be waiting 😜

How deep are the tunnels🇺🇸

How do you keep the water in the pipes from freezing?

Nice.

@GoneVenturing

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! ☺️

7:21 how warm was it in the shack, how is it heated?

Wow how cool! How do people bring the puppets/ little ponies over? Is it something they add over many years?

@GoneVenturing

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah as far as the ponies go I'm sure they just brought them or shipped them down! Believe it or not, in the summer you can even order things on Amazon! But I'm pretty sure they built the puppets here in the craft room!

Wow! What an incredible place! Those ice crystals were beautiful! It would have been nice not to have the music though....just the silence of the ice, as you were walking through. Also, I think it would have been better if you could have talked a wee bit slower, and spent just a bit more time on the shrines. YOU know what they represent, but we don't.

@KJ-kw7gh

2 жыл бұрын

Next time he’ll do better….

@arcanewyrm6295

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know about you, but when my face is freezing and my lungs are convulsing from breathing in very cold temperatures, I tend to hurry my speech (to its own peril) as well.

@Mortthemoose

2 жыл бұрын

@@arcanewyrm6295 😅 that's true!

What camera works at such cold temps?

very simple video, but i am FASCINATED!!!!!!!!! thank you! :-)

@GoneVenturing

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊😊

/) i loved watching this and your shrine

These videos are priceless! If the climate changes this fast these pictures will be just good old day memories because the lack of any ice. Well done, monsieur!

@terminalvelocity4858

8 ай бұрын

🙄

Id be way too excited to just start building/digging/cutting my own tunnel network

What are these jackets that keep them warm in -50 Celsius? Where can I get them?

Its crazy to think that for all of eternity that the earth exists... there will be a MLP shrine

So this is BELOW the ground? If so, I can't imagine how difficult the planning and construction of this site was. Insane. And it's carved out of the ICE? The walls aren't concrete? And why does the building set elevated? And WHAT ARE ALL THOSE PIPES? I saw one was water - how is it kept from freezing?

@user-ge4uk9ui8y

2 жыл бұрын

The water is moving, so it doesn't freeze

@jfbeam

2 жыл бұрын

Below _the surface_ yes. You're still 9000+ feet from "ground". The building on the surface is elevated to stop snow buildup from burying it.

@teeanahera8949

6 ай бұрын

Why didn’t you listen to the video as this was explained!!!!!!!!! By the way, the pipes are electrically heated.

@teeanahera8949

6 ай бұрын

@@user-ge4uk9ui8yNO buddy, the pipes are heated.

@givemespace2742

6 ай бұрын

Calm down 😅 The only dumb question is the one that isn't asked. I bet if I re watched the video I would pick things up I didn't see first time around.

How does this white ice work? You can carve it but it's stable to build in?

I experienced culture shock when he said 50° and I was like, “wait what” and then he said we don’t use negative here and I got it

;) Hello from close in the neighborhood Australia

how cold is it down there?

Hello At 2:27 the guy is using a handheld radio. Which frequency Band are you using? 2m, 70cm oder any other frequency? thanks

I was expecting him to walk past Han and Leia arguing in the hallway.

GobekliTepe has most modern minds bewildered ... what will the minds of say 11,000 years in the future think of these shrines? :-)

Tunnel keepers a pool hustler! 😂💀

I was wondering that do you have any freezer there?

What are the ice tunnels for? Was it mentioned in the video? Maybe I missed it?

@blanchfor

2 жыл бұрын

They are for the water and fuel piping

Back in 56/57 when the first station was built, they dug tunnels for water ect downwards for a way. Are they still open today?

@GoneVenturing

5 жыл бұрын

They wouldn't be open anymore. We still melt ice to get our drinking water though! But there are no signs from the original station around, or even really the dome that was decommissioned in 2008.

@xx3868

5 жыл бұрын

@@GoneVenturing I cant believe they dismantled the old 50 m dome. Unless they needed that ground, it could have been used for storage or summer outside camp personnel or even an emergency shelter which they have to have in case of fire. They use part of the new building for this now, but its still joined and what if it really is all somehow destroyed? So typical political/govt bureaucracy? Yes, the dome use to be an issue being buried a bit and they had to keep clearing the snow away but they have heaps of equipment there that can do the job especially if its used as a facility. If the dome was becoming unstable or corroded fair enough it has to come down but perhaps leaving it there a while longer couldnt have hurt if it was ok? The original wooded station from 56- 74? would be buried under a lot of snow unless they removed that and then built the dome. Imagine Scott/Amundsen, if they saw today the 2 story structure with 2 gyms a music room , large dining room and all the scientific areas the new station has. Its the size of a small university and every piece had to come down by plan e and all the food and fuel from Mckmurdo and from NZ and from the US? No wonder the US is broke and aust too for that matter!

@rstoertz

3 жыл бұрын

I suspect it is all about the cost of upkeep. The ice is always encroaching.

Any full head helms that could be used for heat ?

@GoneVenturing

6 жыл бұрын

mba2ceo Not really! Though if you wear a balaclava and neck gator you’re generally pretty good. It just doesn’t really allow for talking in the video! 😝

it just gets so hot and steamy in the my little pony den

So the crystals on the ceiling are actually forming upwards and he is looking at them while hanging upside down. 🤯

Thanks for making these videos, some of the shots remind me of some of my favourite winters. I'm in Edmonton, it doesn't get quite as cold as it does at the other end of the world. However, more of us live here. :)

This feels like a real life Alien vs Predator movie about to get real!