‘Challenge of a lifetime’: UK charity seeks applicants for jobs in Antarctica

Successful applicants will be based at Base A at Port Lockroy (pictured) on Goudier Island, which is about the size of a football pitch. Photograph: UK Antarctic Heritage Trust/PA

For people who never moan about the cold, can take or leave showers and will get used to a relentless thrum of hooting trumpet noises, ideal jobs have come up.

A heritage charity is advertising vacancies at the bottom of the world. Based in Antarctica, just 9,000 miles from the UK, successful applicants will have to adapt to near-constant daylight, always freezing temperatures and no flushing toilet or running water.