On Tuesday, a week after scientists from Britain and South Korea pitched tents on Antarctica’s remote Thwaites Glacier, they were pretty much ready to start drilling into the half-mile-deep ice. After a week on the glacier, their clothing was grimier, the men’s facial hair bushier. Mr. Raymond made a pot of black tea with snow that had been melted and boiled on a portable gas stove. I declined, saying I couldn’t possibly dip into the team’s stash when they still had so much work to do on the glacier. The post Life on an Antarctic Glacier: Tea, Cheese and Lots of Shoveling appeared first on New York Times.