I find the theme of transit and human domination over an impossible landscape to be very powerful between these two scenes. It is very moving how, not luxurious exactly, but effortless it appears for the modern day scientists and travelers to get to Antartica. We see a group of adventurers lounging around a plane on their laptops and taking naps, and within a few hours they are safely on the ice and making their way to basecamp in a bus. The entire endeavor cannot last more than a day, and the worst hardship they might face is missing lunch or having to sleep in an uncomfortable position. In contrast we see clips from Shackleton’s famous expedition on the ship Endurance. After months of sailing to get to the bottom of the world their ship is caught in ice and they are forced to abandon it and make camp on the sea ice. After more than two years of some of the harshest conditions imaginable, including trekking over miles of uneven terrain like that which is shown in the clip with sleds weighing over one hundred pounds, Shackleton and his men were lucky to escape with their lives. Their survival became an epic tale and they never even managed to make it to the mainland of Antartica during that expedition. Nowadays that near-impossible feat can be accomplished in a fraction of the time with virtually no risks or struggle whatsoever. What was often thought of as a final frontier is all but conquered, and the extent of our progress is yet to find its limits.