The film follows Herzog’s journey to Antarctica, travelling first to McMurdo, the gateway to Antarctica. From there his journey leads him to a survival training camp that humorously – yet vividly – highlights the dangers of living and working in literally blinding conditions, to the rim of Mount Erebus, a massive, bubbling volcano that is home to one of the world’s only visible lava lakes and even to a secret ice tunnel with mysterious contents directly under the geographic South Pole …