Antarctic scientists train in British mud

There hasn't been a glacier in England since the Ice Age, so Antarctic scientists flock to a muddy field here to learn how to survive on the world's coldest continent.

Camped in tents and sometimes sharing a field with horses or geese from Yeld Farm, they learn skills such as lighting a frozen paraffin stove or escaping from a crevasse, taught dangling from ropes on nearby crags in the Peak District.

Since the 1970s, the British Antarctic Survey has trained hundreds of staff here, cooks, pilots, mechanics and plumbers as well as glaciologists.