A friend of mine just did two stints down there -- first at a coastal base, and then again at the actual pole station. She's a nurse practitioner and decided a couple years ago to make hay while the sun was shining so to speak, since she was single and had no kids, so she started doing travel gigs.
One of them was waaay down at the tip of South America, doing health checks and COVID screening for folks headed to Antarctica. She got along well with everyone, and someone had to bow out of a posting at the coastal station, so she got asked. She did well there, and got the offer for the post at the south pole.
Oh, that's an interesting way in...working almost in Antarctica (Tierra del Fuego?) and being an obvious person to fill in for someone that had to cancel.
One of them was waaay down at the tip of South America, doing health checks and COVID screening for folks headed to Antarctica. She got along well with everyone, and someone had to bow out of a posting at the coastal station, so she got asked. She did well there, and got the offer for the post at the south pole.
The pictures she sent back were AMAZING.