Scott and Amundsen were clearly early protagonists, and from there on it degenerated into absurd quests. A Frenchman crossed the Sahara Desert in his car set in reverse gear, and I am waiting for the first barefoot runner on the summit of Everest or the first one hopping into the South Pole on a pogo stick. Well, I had this idea of breaking a Guinness record in every continent, and Antarctica would be the sixth, so, now I'm trying to think of a way to get to Antarctica. Ashrita Furman did not want to travel this way, because he already holds a Guinness record in this discipline. And also in this one. So, he decided upon the more prosaic approach and took an airplane. We flew down to Antarctica. Anyway, it was thrilling because I'm in Antarctica, and I'm trying to break a Guinness record. Being in Antarctica is like being on the moon. It's so... I mean, it's so peaceful. It's so pure. It's so desolate. I mean, it's just a great place. Antarctica is not the moon, even though sometimes it feels like it. Yet, on this planet, McMurdo comes closest to what a future space settlement would look like. We left McMurdo for the penguin colony at cape Royds. Everyone spoke about penguins, however, the questions I had were not so easily answered. I was referred to a penguin expert out there who had studied them for almost 20 years. I was told that he was a