Cyprien Verseux is a glaciologist and biologist, currently working on the most remote scientific base in the world: Concordia in Antarctica

When not busy doing research about climate in eras past, Cyprien keeps a blog to share his experience of living in this extreme environment

Just for fun, Cyprien decided to go outside and have a go at ‘cooking,’ taking photos of different kinds of foods in the deep freeze

Of course, it was just a game, but the gravity-defying pictures vividly illustrate the absolute intensity of the cold down there in Antarctica

This is no picnic!

“It is in the coldest area on Earth, with temperatures reaching below -80°C in winter”

“We saw the Sun again in August after 3 months without it ever passing the horizon. The air is extremely dry and poor in oxygen”

“We run out of fresh food early in the winter (as we have no resupply from early February to early November), so we eat mostly frozen food”

“We are currently 13 people. Technicians, scientists, a cook and a medical doctor”

“In spite of being in an inhospitable desert, Concordia is highly attractive to researchers from different fields such as astronomy and human physiology”

“We are using it to study human adaptation to what is very similar to future conditions of a Moon or Mars base”

“Also, thanks to a project conducted here, that we know that greenhouse gas levels have never been so high in at least the past 800 000 years”

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