Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: A & E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: August 16, 2001
• ASIN: 0767025466
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #634,294 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

It is the coldest, windiest, least hospitable place on earth. Yet despite these hardships, Antarctica has sounded a siren call to adventurers and explorers for centuries. And now, a new breed of pioneer is performing vital work on the frozen continent year-round. THE NEW EXPLORERS heads south to show how scientists are making this remote land their own. They are driven not by conquest but by the thrill of discovery--and what they are finding out could have important implications for the future of the planet. The research is not all done by professionals; a number of students are learning what it is like to perform research in these inhospitable conditions. One such student is Elizabeth Felton, an 18-year-old from Chicago who is at the Pole under the guidance of the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antartica (CARA), based at the University of Chicago. In CRYSTAL LAB, she talks about her experiences working at the literal end of the earth, and we'll watch as she performs the symbolic task of moving the copper plate that identifies the exact location of the South Pole (it has to be repositioned every year due to glacial drift). Bill Kurtis and THE NEW EXPLORERS document the research now energizing the South Pole in CRYSTAL LAB.