Alice25: "Azrael229, OK, and if to forget ab the equipment - could the expression mean: "This is a desolate hole at the end of the world" ?"
(sorry for late reply, I have been away for couple of days)
This could mean something like that even though syntax is strange. I would risk saying that whole transcript sounds strange at places - like it was really hard tohear and they were collating it from understandable parts.
This also matches facts as this would be desolate hole at the end of the world for them.