By invitation · a private screening

Find your sanctum.

The world's most private places, flown in 3D from your own front door. Tonight's screening: the Antarctic Passage.

Sound and Victor's voice begin with this tap; headphones are best.

Skip the film · The house · Request an invitation

Photo: Wilfried Bauer, CC BY-SA 3.0

After the passage · three small choices

Tell us how you'd travel.

Three taps. Each one shapes what follows, and Victor will remember them, so no one asks twice.

IWho's travelling?

Walk into your room before you book

Step inside the camp.

  1. 01The place
  2. 02Echo, from outside
  3. 03Inside a pod
  4. 04The view you wake to

Photographs by White Desert, shown on this test site for review only, and by Wilfried Bauer (CC). These are photographs, not a 3D model; the live 3D approach to the camp's printed coordinates is in your journey, flown.

Who looks after you on the ice

White Desert, in its own words.

Eight days

From Cape Town. Weekly departures from 1 December 2026 to 26 January 2027.

5.5 hours

The flight south from Cape Town to a blue-ice runway.

Fewer than 500

People reach the South Pole each year, by White Desert's account.

IFMGA guides

Internationally certified mountain guides lead the cliff-side trail on Wild Horizons day.

“It's just you and 20,000 penguins.”

Patrick Woodhead, White Desert founder, on the colony at Atka Bay

Source: White Desert, South Pole & Emperor Penguins itinerary, white-desert.com (read 24 Oct 2026). Price as published: from US$115,500 per person, sharing (2026–27).

The house remembers

Made for one family. Yours.

Victor remembers

No one asks twice.

What you've told us so far, kept for you and for Glenn:

    Chief-of-staff mode

    Send it to my office.

    Whoever runs your diary gets the plan, the dates and the questions, so you never forward a thing.

    Opens in your own mail app with everything filled in; nothing is sent by Sanctums.

    The family memory vault

    Kept, privately.

    Every Sanctums journey is planned to end in a private family archive: the film, the photographs and the notes, kept in your vault and shared only with whom you choose.

    The gifting desk

    A screening, given.

    Private banks and family offices can present a Sanctums screening to a client, under their own name, just as this one is presented to you.

    The Founding Circle · private preview

    Unlock your journey, flown.

    Sanctums is opening to a Founding Circle of twenty families. Tell us who you are, and the screening becomes yours: your whole journey flown in 3D, end to end, with Victor narrating. Glenn reads every one personally.

    • Your journey, flownThe whole trip in live 3D, day by day, narrated by Victor.
    • Your field notePrepared in your name, ready to save.
    • Victor, who already knows youNo one asks twice.
    • Your screening on every deviceYour mobile number brings it back.
    • The Founding CircleConsidered for one of twenty places.
    • A private conversation with GlennOur founder, at a time that suits you.
    Four details. About twenty seconds.

    Prefer to talk? ; he'll pass it all to Glenn.

    Private preview

    Your journey, flown.

    Your whole journey, end to end, in live 3D: from your front door to the Pole and home, narrated by Victor.

    A Sanctums field note ·

    Antarctica, the season

    When

    White Desert's eight-day South Pole & Emperor Penguins journey departs weekly from Cape Town, 1 December 2026 to 26 January 2027. Arrive in Cape Town at least two days before, and leave two days after, in case of weather.

    The emperors, by month

    By December the chicks' down gives way to sleek juvenile feathers; by late January the colonies disperse as the young head for the sea. If the colony matters most, an earlier departure is the one to ask about.

    How the days really run

    The itinerary is adjusted each week for flying windows, so the order of days can change on the ice. The South Pole is 2,400 km inland, on the High Polar Plateau at 3,000 m (10,000 ft): five hours' flying to Dixie's Camp at 83°S, then on after refuelling.

    Where you sleep

    White Desert's camps sit about 71° south: Echo, with its sky-pods below the Drygalski Mountains, and Whichaway, beside rare exposed rock and freshwater lakes.

    Questions worth asking Glenn

    • Which week gives us the best chance with the emperors, for our dates?
    • How does the altitude at the Pole suit everyone travelling?
    • Which Cape Town and Winelands days, or a Southern African safari, fit around the flight?

    Source: White Desert, South Pole & Emperor Penguins itinerary, white-desert.com (read 24 Oct 2026). Price as published: from US$115,500 per person, sharing.