I want to tell you about a sweater.

It's in Antarctica, and it's more than a century old.

It's thick, gray-green wool, and when you lean in, you can smell.

It's smoky, gamey, stinky, and fishy.

But what really struck me about the sweater was the patches.

One has taken really big, clumsy stitches, patched the sweater over and over, patches

on top of each other.

The sweater belonged to someone who was stranded at Hut in Antarctica for more than a year,

and they had no idea if anyone was coming to get them or if anyone knew they were there.

The story of the sweater and the hut where this person was stranded is one of just incredible

resilience and survival at the bottom of the world.

I'm Gemma Tarlac, and I'm a senior editor and writer at Atlas Obscura.

Today we're going to Discovery Hut.

It's a simple structure that's a relic from the early 1900s, the heroic age of Antarctic

exploration.

We'll learn about how it got here and how it became the last refuge for a lost party

of explorers after this.

The first question I have for you is how did you end up living in Antarctica for close

to two years?

So when I was little, when I was way too young to be seeing an R-rated movie, I was obsessed

with Kurt Russell, so my mom took me to see John Carpenters the thing.

Twelve men have just discovered something.

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