There are places where the eye loses itself in the dazzling light of ice and snow: quiet, seemingly motionless landscapes where life is far from easy or assured. Some provide the backdrop to the story told by director Iñárritu in The Revenant; others have, over the years, become important centres for scientific research at remote latitudes. Antarctica is one such place, as Angelo Domesi of the Italian National Research Council’s Department of Earth System Science and Environmental Technologies explains