Guests are first flown 5.5 hours south from Cape Town in an Airbus A340 or business jet to the ice runway operated between mid-November and early February.
Surrounded by books and rare curios like fossilised shells and shiny, multicoloured geodes, it's a cosy space with inspiring views of the enormous, almost overwhelming white outside.
As a fellow guest - an American running her own high-end travel agency - tells Ben: 'There's an intensity of the moment that forces you to be present'] But it can be life-changing for those who do visit.
As a fellow guest - an American running her own high-end travel agency - tells Ben: 'There's an intensity of the moment that forces you to be present'.
On the first day in Antarctica I find myself hiking around a nunatak - the top of a mountain sticking out of an ice field or glacier.
