"2200s, huh?" Kinner whistles. "What's it like there? Can't say I've been."

Jim's guess isn't far off from how Kinner would have described Antarctica.

"They don't call it the worst place in the world for nothing. It was pretty when I wasn't stumbling around blind in the snow. Believe me, I wouldn't go back there if I had a choice. Our expedition ended badly, I'm sad to say. I was one of the casualties."