Рассказ человека (eng), зимовавшего на американской научной станции в Антарктиде. Пишет, что вопрос не в том, рехнёшься ты там или нет (он это называет Toast), вопрос только, как скоро и до какой степени.
Pole (американская станция "Амундсен-Скотт" на Южном полюсе - ЕТ) gets the worst conditions of Toast, due to the remoteness and harshness of the environment. There's a few people who've tried to leave Pole in the middle of winter. Keep in mind that South Pole is 750 miles away from ANYTHING, across the most barren, inhospitable, windiest, desolate and bleak landscape on the planet. And that it's usually -80F (-62°C - ЕТ) during the winter.
A few years ago, one guy decided that he had to leave Pole, and tried to ski to McMurdo with nothing but a tent and some Hersheys bars. He made it 11 miles before people realized he was missing. Pole is completely flat for 500 miles in all directions, so all they had to do was go up onto the roof and look, and say "Oh, over there". He'd set up his tent to take a nap in, they went out on snowmobiles and brought him back to station.