In the early 1900s two intrepid explorers with very different leadership styles, Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott, competed to be the first to reach the South Pole. It is an epic tale of exploration and their different approaches gives us a natural experiment to observe how well each style works in the field.

While he’s never met Santa Clause Dr. Chris Davis’s work as the former director of Polar Medicine at the University of Colorado has brought him pretty close. Dana talks current arctic medical operations with Dr. Davis and helps us get a sense of where we’ve learned from the mistakes of the past and what operations look like now.