London-based BBC weatherman Peter Gibbs was the subject of the BBC Horizon programme which documented his return to Antarctica where he worked during the early 1980s .
Pete, part weatherman, part action-man, part epic-hero goes back to Research Station Halley on the Brunt Ice shelf on the coldest, driest, most isolated continent on earth.
It makes for fascinating stuff and if you missed it there are further chances to catch up here.
Catch Horizon: Ice Station Antarctica on the BBC iplayer now!
An hour isn't quite enough and I had some questions to ask Pete afterwards.
The photography is phenomenal in the film, how was it done?
Antarctica is such an epic place, it's hard NOT to take good pictures! But yes, credit has to go to our brilliant cameraman David Baillie. He's no stranger to Antarctica having filmed for Attenborough's 'Frozen Planet' series.
For this programme David had to film while dangling on ropes, deal with temperatures down to -15C and at one point stand on an ice floe while the captain drove his icebreaker towards it! You also saw some great aerial shots from a drone piloted by our director, Simon.
You were originally in the Antarctic during the '80s when the ozone discoveries were made! How does it feel to be such an important part of history?
To be fair, the real groundbreaking work on the discovery of the ozone hole was done by the scientists in Cambridge. Joe Farman, Jonathan Shanklin and Martin Gardiner noticed the downward trend from the measurements taken over decades at Halley and worked out that man-made chemicals were causing it.
But yes, it feels good to have played a small part in that and it shows the importance of making routine measurements over long periods even when you're not sure what it might lead to.
What had changed most? What hadn't changed?
The whole operation is much bigger and more professional than when I was there in the 1980s.
It needs a team of around 50 people to get the station ready for winter, with all the work being compressed into the short summer season. But the remoteness is just as extreme as ever and the landscape of the ice-shelf looks just as it did when I was there.
That's deceptive though - it constantly moves and cracks and the building I lived in has long since drifted away inside an iceberg!
It's dark for 3 months a year! Totally dark? How does everyone cope with this in the station?
I think everyone has their own way of coping. It's important to maintain a daily routine so that even though you don't have the normal cycle of day and night outside, there is some sense of normality.
And the compensation for permanent darkness is spectacular views of the aurora and some of the starriest skies on the planet.
There's an interesting section about space weather in the piece. Where can we find out more? Did you get any good aurora photos?
Space weather is one of the newer fields of research and as you saw in the film, a crucial one. There's a good explanation hereon the BBC Website.
Or at the Met Office , externalandLancaster University has a site which gives alerts when aurora is expected., external
Unfortunately we didn't get to see any this trip because in summer it's permanent daylight.
What are your hopes for the future of Halley and even for Antarctica itself?
2016 is Halley stations's 60th birthday, so I hope the move of Halley VI goes smoothly so that the vital science can continue uninterrupted for another 60 years.
Elsewhere in Antarctica, climate change is having a major impact with the peninsula region warming faster than anywhere on the planet. This poses a threat to the unique landscapes and wildlife unless the pace of change slows.
Then there's the Antarctic Treaty, which preserves Antarctica as a wilderness for scientific study free of territorial claims. It's a unique international agreement, and one I hope that can be preserved.
