Andy Stumpf on skydiving over Antarctica, where a chartered 757 lands on solid ice Joe Rogan: What was weird about Antarctica? Andy Stumpf: There's nothing there. We were at a camp in the interior run by a company called ALE. It's fully set up, with a library, a packing area for parachutes, bathrooms, showers and really nice tents. You fly in on a chartered 757 and land on a blue ice runway with lights on it. Joe: You just land on ice? Andy: Straight ice. A Russian plane landed while we were there. Joe: Is the camp for scientists? Andy: No. The South Pole has government-funded science. This is straight-up tourism. You can hang out in camp or go see glaciers. There's a dining facility with all the food you want, and every night someone gives a presentation, like a National Geographic photographer, or people who walked to the South Pole. Andy: I had no fear of crevasses until I got the brief. The brief was basically: you fall in, you're dead, and they'll never find you. Joe: And the camp is surrounded by them. How deep? Andy: Hundreds of feet. One guy fell into one skiing, and the video went around online. He got out with ice cleats and a rope from his friends, and he was smart not to be out there alone. Joe: How do they know a new crevasse won't open on the runway? Andy: They groom it every 22 hours. And they shut the camp down every year, because in winter the sun never really comes up. Andy: For the jump, I packed a duffel bag of clothes. I put on almost everything and nearly overheated in the plane, sweating under all those layers. Then you jump out into around negative 30 or 40 and rip clothes off on the way down. The second time, everyone wore one or two layers. Joe: How cold was it on the ground? Andy: About 10 degrees. I was in snowboard pants and a long-sleeve shirt. No insects, no wildlife and a sun that never sets, and somebody still built a library.