South Pole Winter Review - July

[@kingkea3451]

Man, ever since I was a little kid I've wanted to winter over in Antarctica. To experience the cold, dark beauty of it. I'm 22 now and studying Mechanical Engineering at university and I really hope I can get to Antarctica one day. I'm a kiwi, so it'll be Scott Base for me!

[@hansentruong2752]

January or February is the best time to go to Antarctica because that time in the Southern Hemisphere is summer

[@jonny777bike]

Hopefully you will get starlink service down there.

[@ThiagoPrimo]

Always great to see a notification coming in with a new video, I look forward to them!

[@GoneVenturing]

Thank you so much!! I'm glad you enjoy them ☺️

[@draxenato]

Thanks again for doing these, your videos are the highlight of my week. Do you think you'll go back after this season ? You seem to thrive there. On some of the other Antarctic Vloggers you can see them getting more and more fed up and I think they all ended up one-and-done, but your second winter seems to be going even better than your first. Cheers man I am thoroughly enjoying all of these.

[@GoneVenturing]

Thank you so much Jack! I can't tell you how much that means! As far as the future does, I'm not sure! I definitely do well down here, but there are hard parts as well. I think I'm definitely going to take a break from Pole and winters. However, I can see myself going back to McMurdo for the summers for a little while. That's just super fun and a lot shorter. 13 months is a long time to be away from civilization. Haha. Also, to be completely honest, my dream is to continue to grow this travel channel, and if things start to go well and I can turn it into my job, then I don't know if I can come back. For one, it's crazy hard to even make one video a week with the 60 hour work week we have here, and second, I am not allowed to monetize stuff while I'm here. So it would make it hard to keep any momentum up. But we shall see! Lots of stuff is up in the air in the future!! ☺️

[@draxenato]

@@GoneVenturing Your videos are perfect for school kids wanting to know about life on the ice. Maybe linking up with some schools or educational programs and getting feedback from the kids would help keep the momentum up ? I could honestly see you doing this sort of thing professionally for PBS or the BBC, I'm thinking David Attenborough on Red Bull :) Maybe use your videos for a demo reel, put some feelers out and see what happens ?

[@GoneVenturing]

Wow seriously thank you so much! That really means a lot for you to say that! Especially the Attenborough comment! I don't think I come anywhere near him! 😜 But seriously, thank you ☺️ I have done a couple unofficial things off-ice including a talk to a nature organization and a couple talks to elementary schools, and that was definitely a lot of fun. However, the difficulty lies more in that I have a 60 hour/week job and making these videos, IG Posts, tweeting, etc and then also maintaining my own life here is quite a lot on top of it. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love it and there is no way I'm going to be stopping! It's just that the goals I have for post-ice include posting a lot more and ultimately going "full time" with it!! I'm super excited for the future, because my goal is still to continue creating unique content that takes people places they might not otherwise get to go. Mostly I just hope awesome people like you stick around! I know it won't be Antarctica, but I have plenty of other cool adventures in the pipeline, which I hope people will enjoy! And hopefully I can do it professionally someday ☺️ Thought I will say, in the summertime, McMurdo does offer these Artists and Writers grants, and technically doing something like this could fall under that! That could be a future for this channel on the Ice potentially, especially because there is so much stuff that happens at McM during the summer, between recreation, the science, and just getting away from the station. So we shall see where the future takes us ☺️

[@NikiCanotas]

Always an interesting view How about a vacation planning video

[@GoneVenturing]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it! ☺️ And yeah! That could be good! I will definitely talk about that stuff some more when I have some actual plans! Things are still a little up in the air at this point. but I'll be stoked to share what's happening after the Ice once I know a bit more! 🙌

[@redwingblackbird8306]

All of you are having, too much fun.

[@GoneVenturing]

Haha nahhh, gotta have some fun on top of the 60 hour work weeks 😜

[@PsRohrbaugh]

Does the moon actually go above / below the horizon? Because at normal latitudes, it goes through the phases, and is just a "new moon" for a while. Or are the phases going on in addition to this two week cycle?

[@fantasygirl4564]

South pole is my fvrt place on earth

[@richardmartinez3078]

Love the videos!!!!

[@GoneVenturing]

Ahh thank you so much!! I really appreciate it ☺️

[@redwingblackbird8306]

Will taking your group photo, cause white light pollution, that could hinder some experiments/instruments running down there? If Van looks tired all the time, does he have sleep apnea, or is it because he has been in the dark for months?

[@GoneVenturing]

Nope! I mean it would but when things like the happen, we can turn off the sensitive equipment. So no worries there! We just try to do things are quickly as possible so we lost as little data as possible. And nah, it's just sleep can be hard down here. He also (much like I do), stays up pretty late. Hah.

[@charleslangley6036]

Have you ever watched the movie The Thing? Scared the sh*t out of me. Both the 1982 and the 2011 prequel version.

[@jonathanthompson5710]

I just signed my offer from PAE. Any advice? Things I need to take?

[@yunassaxer7119]

great!

[@chrislunsford5578]

2nd place in Mario Kart? Got blue shelled I bet

[@phillm156]

Supreme Commander! Loved that game! Glad to see it’s legacy lives on.

[@HansenTruongOnYT]

Oh no, that’s not good. July is dangerously the coldest month in the South Pole, because at that time is winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

[@sarahedwards2]

My birthday is the day after that year’s Christmas in July (the 29th).

[@fantasygirl4564]

❤❤

[@TheSJCieply]

Why do you care about the time of day when it's always night?

[@FirstLast-uz6eq]

you are sometimes working with people in the US or another country

[@r.a.6459]

Perpetual darkness mean you can only rely on UTC or Universal Coordinated Time.

[@seanbaskett5506]

Congrats on not going toast

[@planetrob555]

How about pics when you are NOT in twilight? How about pics when you are in total darkness? That's what I want to see. THAT is when I would LOVE to be at the South Pole. Are there videos you've made when it's TOTAL 24 hour darkness? If so, can I see??!

[@GoneVenturing]

July is total darkness! Haha. It was total darkness after like late April. There are just auroras and stuff all the time, which is why it’s so light. And the moon also casts a lot of light. The reason we see so much of the night sky is because it is total darkness ☺️

[@fantasygirl4564]

I also want to go to south pole it's my dream it will come true 😊🤘

[@GoneVenturing]

You can make it happen!! 🙌

[@fantasygirl4564]

@@GoneVenturing Yupp!!!