Sample Interview Questions

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These questions can help guide interviews, podcasts, or Q&A sessions about South of Silence.

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1. What made you decide to spend nearly three years at the South Pole?

2. You are one of fewer than 120 people to complete back-to-back winters at the Pole. What does that actually mean?

3. What is the hardest part of living at the South Pole? Is it the cold?

4. Can you describe what -100°F feels like?

5. Tell us about the 300 Club. What is it and why did you do it?

6. How does six months of total darkness affect your mind?

7. What surprised you most about life at the South Pole?

8. The book is called "South of Silence." What does that mean?

9. You write with a lot of humor despite the extreme circumstances. How do you maintain that perspective?

10. What was the hardest part about coming home?

11. How did your military and meteorology background prepare you (or not prepare you) for Antarctica?

12. Why donate 100% of the proceeds to the Robert Irvine Foundation?

13. What do you want readers to take away from this book?

14. Would you go back to the South Pole?

15. What advice would you give someone considering extreme isolation or a similar challenge?