Deep in Antarctica, where the sun ghosts you for months and the ice is actively trying to eat your house, Germany’s Neumayer III station is living its best hydraulic life—literally jacked up on 16 giant stilts like a polar research base that hit leg day hard. Every week, a brave crew of engineers loosens brackets, fires up hydraulic cylinders, and shovels fresh snow underneath like they’re tucking in a very expensive, 2,200-ton toddler. Forget sinking into oblivion like its two buried predecessors; this bad boy gets lifted six feet a year just to stay level. It’s the ultimate flex against Mother Nature: “You may bury us in snow, but we’ll just Leg Press our way back to the surface.”
This Peek Under an Antarctic Base Is Absolutely Wild
