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At the coldest, driest, and windiest place on Earth, a PT finds renewed purpose by treating a deeply motivated population.
Danielle Morrison worked as the PT at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Here, she works with a firefighter from New Zealand.
Antarctica: the world's coldest, windiest, driest, and highest-altitude continent in the world. It's a cold desert capped by an inland ice sheet, containing approximately 90% of the world's total surface fresh water and 60% of the world's total fresh water with an ice sheet so heavy that it has pushed the land below sea level, according to the British Antarctic Survey.
Date: August 1, 2025
Contact: aptamag@apta.org
Content Type: Column
Danielle Morrison, PT, DPT
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