Montreal Gazette - A road trip to where there are no roads

Winter break just isn't what it used to be. Like many of their friends, McGill University students Dominque de Groot and Katrina Adams will be heading south for a few weeks this winter. Way south.

Instead of basking on a sandy beach, they'll be wrapping up in parkas and rain-gear for an expedition to the bottom of the world, where they'll slather on the sunscreen to test the glaciers and commune with penguins.

Adams, de Groot and four other McGill students have signed up for Students on Ice, a two-week, $11,000 field course that will take them by ship from Ushuaia, Argentina, across the Drake Passage to the icy shores of Antarctica.