Friend of DCist Jim Darling sent us this video last week of his friend Ann Posegate’s trip to the South Pole with the National Science Foundation. Posegate is a local journalist and educator who works for the National Environmental Education Foundation and also blogs with the Capitol Weather Gang. Although her trip was back in January of this year, we thought you might enjoy a virtual trip to one of the coldest places on Earth. Also, penguins!

No roads may lead to Antarctica, but all longitude lines do. It’s these lines that the continent’s few residents have followed, from wherever they started, to their shared terminus at the bottom of the planet, stepping, as one resident puts it, “off the edge of the map.” Werner Herzog has made a career out of films based on characters on the margins. Some are real, some are imagined, but nearly all of them are obsessives…