British scientists are embarking on a groundbreaking mission to look for signs of life deep beneath the ice of Antarctica.<br /><br />The British Antarctic Survey will use a hot-water drill to bore down to a lake buried beneath 3km of solid ice in West Antarctica.<br /><br />What they find beneath the ice could give clues to the origins of life and how climate change may affect the planet.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Rory Challands met with the scientists in Cambridge before they set off.
