Well … hopefully he’ll make enough $$$ as an ‘influencer’ to run his life, then, since he isn’t going to be pointing a big aluminum mailing tube anywhere. I’d want to know did HE pay for that nice 182 or is he being funded some other way? Finally, he needs a haircut … the Viet Nam war ended 50 years ago 
Yes … I wish all who put a uniform on in our military a Happy Fourth. I just found out I’ll be aboard the Honor Flight traveling to DC out of Airventure 2025. A great honor !!
He is not the first person to just show up in Antarctica with no permission in a GA airplane. Didn’t someone else do it in an RV some years ago?
Some people believe that Antarctica is in fact an ice wall around the flat earth keeping the oceans in. Depending on the exact nature of the delusion beyond it you either hit the firmament or can find unlimited new lands and untold riches.
Common to these belief systems is the notion that the Antarctic Treaty bans all civilians from visiting Antarctica and those that try are turned away at gunpoint, detained or even disappear. All to keep the secret and sustain the lie of a globe earth.
Clearly this young man has now made a point in favor of this belief.
No, he just demonstrated how FAFO works. He learned the easy way, if he would have gone down in the freezing water he would have got a much harsher lesson and moved from FAFO to Darwin Award Finalist.
“… funds for childhood cancer research …” according to the news article.
Congratulations, Larry! The Honor Flight is a big deal, and we in Vintage do our best to make sure there’s a big crowd when you return.