This team of scientists is drilling deep into the ice sheet, 650 meters deep, to extract a piece of Antarctic ice core.
Their tents were set up on an isolated, hostile, uninhabited ice land on the Skytrain Ice Rise in Antarctica.
By investigating the depths of ice on the continent, scientists from Cambridge University and the British Antarctic Survey are working to understand what makes the Antarctic ice sheet so vulnerable.
The drill had extracted large chunks of ice core measuring 80 cm, which were then cut out for further analysis.
House in Antartic - Photo courtesy of Torsten Dederichs under unsplah free license
extracted ice core contains air bubbles, which are direct samples of the 200 year old Antarctic atmosphere.
