Expedition Antarctica Script — Guest

(Beat of silence)

Not because it’s beautiful. But because it is indifferent . Antarctica does not need us. It was here before the first human drew a breath. It will be here after our last. That indifference is the most humbling mirror you will ever look into. Guest Expedition Antarctica Script

Here is the paradox of the guest expedition: You came to conquer a bucket list. But Antarctica conquers you . (Beat of silence) Not because it’s beautiful

This place is melting. Not in a hundred years. Now. The ice you walked on? It is retreating three meters every summer. It was here before the first human drew a breath

“There is no soft way to begin this story. To reach the Seventh Continent, you must first pay your respects to the Drake. She might give you the ‘Drake Lake’… or she might give you the ‘Drake Shake.’