Antarctica the last Frontier

You're in a place where mind-shattering cold isolates you from the rest of the planet for eight out of 12 months each year. Where cargo planes often can't fly and ships can't sail, and so a single shipment of food and supplies has to last you a year. Where the dryness of the air makes your fingers crack and your nose bleed. Where an unflinching sun glares down at you day and night for months at a time. A place so ruggedly inhospitable that even insects don't live there.