Markle and his fellow researchers called this camp on the WAIS Divide home. What is it like to live on a remote ice sheet for two months? “It’s essentially flat whiteness forever, white to the horizon in all directions,” says Markle. “There’s 24 hours of daylight in the summer. It’s otherworldly.”
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