My presentation at TEDxGolfLinksPark on 21-Jan-2012 on my stay at Indian Antarctic Station Maitri as a member of 13th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica

2. • Coldest
• Windiest
• 5th Largest
• Desert!
• 99.6% Ice
• 70% of Earth’s
Pure Water
• No native
population
http://geology.com/world/antarctica-
satellite-image.shtml

3. If you have men who will only come if they know
there is a road, I don’t want them. I want men
who will come if there is no road at all.
- David Livingstone (1813-74)
Onboard MV Stepan Krasheninikov, Goa to Antarctica, Dec 93

4. The land looks like a fairytale.
– Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)
Approaching Maitri Station, Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica

5. The men selected must be qualified for the work, and they must also have
the special qualifications required to meet polar conditions. They must be
able to live together in harmony for a long period without outside
communication, and it must be remembered that the men whose desires lead
them to the untrodden paths of the world have generally marked individuality.
- Ernest Schakleton (1874 – 1922)
Helping the cook on Galley Duty

6. Anybody can deal with the ice. But to deal with the human spirit is very difficult.
– Roland Hurtford, Polar Historian on Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17
A Snow Blizzard picking up during winter

7. The Ice tends to magnify seemingly trivial events and symptoms,
transforming what would be viewed as mundane or unimportant in any other
environment into something that is problematic and significant under
conditions of isolation and confinement."
— Dr. Lawrence Palinkas, On the ice: Individual and Group Adaptation in Antarctica
At a party at Russian Station, Novolazarevskaya, Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica

8. It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
– Edmund Hillary
At foot of Polar Ice Sheet, Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica