Furthest South. Story

“Furthest South”: The furthest point south, the darkest of winters. After his girlfriend leaves him, the unnamed narrator tries to take his mind off things by working on a scientific base in the Antarctic. Seven months cut off from the rest of the world, it’s like being in outer space. With the final lot of overwintering scientists, the person he wishes to see least arrives on the base. ***“BBC Television Studios, 2013”: She is asked to represent her team in a BBC TV interview. A reason to be pleased? “Better wear a skirt,” she is told. - A young woman’s dark but funny revenge taken on the chiefly male world of science.