The Diesel generator that kept us alive on the base started to malfunction at five this morning. It would stay on for about an hour and then go off for two or three hours. Less than a minute after it went off an unbearable temperature of -32 C could be felt filling up the crevices of the rooms. We ran to the tents we installed inside of the house after the first failure and waited, dressed as if we were going to climb Everest, for the wind to die down so we could fix it. The technician was sw...