Visiting the South Pole #
February 23rd, 2008 | In Worth Reading
Michelangelo D’Agostino does something many would love to: visit the south pole.
Light floods the plane when the cargo bay opens. The excitement is palpable now as we begin to move towards the door. A colleague once called the moment he stepped off the plane in Antarctica for the first time the best moment of his life. I didn’t quite believe him then. Now, though, stepping gingerly down the stairs and onto the ice, a blast of cold air hits my face, but it’s the brilliant white of the ice-shelf extending in all directions, ending in snow-covered mountains, that takes my breath away.