"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.

One of them is a madman — accused of violently beating, threatening and sexually harassed at least two of his teammates.

"All right, guys, sometimes, you are wrong in life," announced Jeran Campanella, a prominent flat-Earth theorist who joined an all-expenses-paid expedition to Antarctica to see the Sun circle the ...