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If your listeners can't take an expedition to the Antarctic to cool off this summer, they can still visit the bottom of the world with Antarctica: Life On The Ice.
In a sound-rich special, Reporter Glenn Zorpette paints a sharp and compelling portrait of a continent alive with intellectual ferment, with charismatic creatures of both avian and human varieties, and with poignant human interest.
 Glenn traveled to Antarctica as a guest of the National Science Foundation and had unrestricted access to U.S. bases and facilities, where he interviewed scientists, bakers, bureaucrats, technicians, disbursement clerks, environmentalists, survival trainers, helicopter pilots, painters, a bartender, and a masseuse.
Glenn captures -
- the cackling and bleating of 3,500 Adelie penguins in the world's
 southernmost rookery,
- the gentle trickling of 4,000-year-old water from an ancient glacier, and
- the throaty roar of a drill boring a mile-and-a-half hole in polar ice.
He -
 spends a night at the South Pole -
- interviews field scientists in one of Antarctica's legendary, ice-free "Dry Valleys,"
- uses the only cash machine on the entire continent, and
- visits the century-old expedition huts of explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.
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