Well this sounds like quite the adventure! And a lot more fun and engaging than just yelling through screens. As a Norwegian, I read a lot about the Amundsen expeditions, especially as my grandfather's uncle was the captain onboard his ship, meaning we had a lot of the books and some journals. So I have been daydreaming quite a bit about trying to do what they did back then.

It certainly is possible for anyone to go, I mean one of my friends from my studies ended up traveling there twice starting out with no money (I think he ended up making a deal where he would take pictures and capture video and make a movie that the company doing the expeditions could get and use for their promotions etc in return). In a weird way, you remind me a bit of him :P.

Looking forward to your adventure! Tell me if you want me to take an image of the area with a satellite tho, could come in handy ;).