12 weeks in the cooler

By Thomas Lane and Thomas Lane Thomas Lane2008-04-04T00:00:00

British Antarctic Survey’s project manager Karl Tuplin stands outside the first fully clad module at the end of the first construction season.

Temperatures of 55°C below zero, no privacy, strictly rationed alcohol … and they’re only a third of the way through the job. Thomas Lane finds out what it’s like to spend a ‘summer’ on site at the Halley VI Antarctic research station

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