One year in very southern France
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RECORD-breaking French adventurer Laurence de la Ferrière has conquered some of the tallest and deadliest mountains in the world without oxygen, crossed Antarctica with just a 140kg food
sleigh – and is now a civil servant.
But this is no nine-to-five desk job in Paris. Ferrière is the chef de district for the Terre Adélie, the French-owned slice of Antarctica, about twice the size of the UK. Population: 26
researchers and technicians, living in complete isolation for nine months of the year and complete darkness for three on the Dumont d’Urville polar base just off the coast.