Beth discusses her experience of living and working at the Antarctic research station, Spaceflight Analogue Concordia; also known as 'White Mars’. Discover what it’s like to live at -80C with no sunlight for 105 days, and why research at the end of the world will help future deep space missions and life on Earth. Beth is a UK trained doctor who has recently returned from Antarctica where she was working as a researcher for the European Space Agency at spaceflight analogue Concordia ‘White Mars’. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and patron of Expedition Medicine with an interest in polar environments she has worked as part of logistical and medical support teams for ski mountaineering expeditions and endurance races in Svalbard, Greenland, Siberia and at the North Pole. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at