The woman, named Toni, lives at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station and posts videos answering TikTokers' questions about life in Antarctica.
Mountaineers and hikers have had to have extremities amputated because frostbite has caused irreparable damage.
Toni's TikTok account—which has the tagline"I live at the bottom of the world"—offers an insight into how the research station runs, as well as the lives of its inhabitants. Her most popular video has been watched more than 33 million times and she has 1.5 million followers. She works in the logistics and waste department, explaining that her job is to"take all of the waste that the South Pole creates, and box it all up to be sent out to the United States, because it can't stay on the continent."and the crew waving goodbye to the last plane departing for six months.She also captured the final sunset in March, as the sun disappears for half the year in Antartica. In her most recent clip, however, the sun has returned.
After one viewer asked what might have happened if she'd got locked outside, Toni explained:"None of our outside doors lock!"File photo of woman in Antarctica. A woman working at a South Pole research station is sharing her experiences on TikTok.
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