CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand --- The howling winds and perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter were easing to a frozen spring when mechanic Liz Monahon at McMurdo Station grabbed a hammer. If those in charge weren't going to protect her from the man she feared would kill her, she figured, she needed to protect herself. It wasn't like she could escape. They were all stuck there together on the ice. So she kept the hammer with her at all times, either looped into her Carhartt overalls or tucked into her sports bra. "If he came anywhere near me, I was going to start swinging at him," Monahon says. "I decided that I was going to survive." ___ Monaho...Keep on reading: Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers