Bitter Cold
Twelve men take freezing baths until they can bear them no longer; are injected with chemicals which make them frightened; shiver naked in cold rooms. All to see if man can adapt to the ferocious Antarctic climate. Later they cross the ice, in conditions of deliberate hardship, isolated in flimsy tents. The stresses become intolerable, not only because each man is an experimental guinea pig, but, by running his own uncomfortable and sometimes frightening human experiments, each has a chance to be tormentor and tormented. It may teach about man's ability to adapt to the Antarctic - but it taught them much more about themselves.
Narrator Paul Vaughan
Filmed and produced for Australian Broadcasting Corporation by DAVID PARER
Adapted for BBCtv by JACK WEBER Horizon editor ROBIN BRIGHTWELL