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Exploration + Adventure 480 images Created 21 May 2021

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  • A mountaineer rejoices atop Mount Shinn, 3rd highest peak in Antarctica.
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  • A small, ski-equipped Cessna flies over the  Antarctica's southern Ellsworth Mountains
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe (MR) climbs Mount Bearskin (2850m) above Patton Glacier in Ellsworth Mountains. 4852m Mount Tyree bkg., 2nd highest peak on continent.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe (MR) climbs Mount Bearskin (2850m) in the Ellsworth Mountains.  Mount Tyree (4852m), the continent's 2nd highest mountain is in background on right and Mount Vinson (4897m), the highest massif, is in left background.
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  • Mountaineer Mark Synnott ferries loads to the base of Great Sail Peak, above fog in Stewart Valley on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • Expedition members exult after the first ascent of the north face of Great Sail Peak, an arctic big wall climb on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • Hanging Portaledge camp & haul bags high on Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island, Canada.
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  • CORDILLERA SARMIENTO, Patagonia, Chile. Skier below crevasses on highest icecap of this previously unexplored range (Phillip Lloyd) (MR).
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  • Climbers top an unclimbed mountain in Chile's Cordillera Sarmiento.
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  • Rob Hart (MR) descends steep ice on "Fickle Finger of Fate" in  the Cordillera Sarmiento, a previously unexplored range of Patagonia, Chile.
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  • Mountaineer Mark Newcomb rappels below massive Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
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  • A Geo tourist stands atop a promintory called the Devil's Nose at West Point Island in Britain's  Falkland Islands.
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  • Hiker ascend an ancient Bedouin route on Jebel [Mount] Burdah.  Jordan's Wadi Rum. (MR)
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  • Climber Lisa Gnade scrambles on strangely eroded sandstone in Rakabat Canyon, Jebel Um Ishrin, Wadi Rum, Jordan.
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  • A mountaineer scrambles across a narrow arete in the Cirque of the Unclimbables, Northwest Territories,Canada.
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  • FRANZ JOSEF LAND, RUSSIA. Helicopter pilot Marko Ruzhin Flies near Cape Tegethoff, enroute to the nuclear-powered icebreaker, Yamal.        (Arctic Ocean.)
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  • PERUVIAN ARCHAEOLOGY. Dr. Peter Lerche (MR) examines rare unlooted pre-Incan (Chachapoyan) tomb on cliff in upper Amazon cloud forests. Object in door is a mummy bundle.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Peru. Ben Wiltsie sleeps in a tent under the full moon atop Cerro Victoria. In background are Cerro Corihuayrachina and low fog in canyons below.
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  • Conrad Anker ascends a rope high on Rakekniven ("The Razor"), a towering granite fin in the Filchner Mountains of Antarctica's Queen Maud Land.  Behind are the Fenris Mountains.
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  • After climbing the right hand skyline of Rakekniven Spire in Antarctica, mountaineers Conrad Anker and Jon Krakauer ski atop the mile-thick icecap surrounding it.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Conrad Anker near summit of Mt.Kubus. Filchner Mts.bkg. Queen Maud Land.
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  • SKIING, Montana, Sinuhe Shrecengost (MR) skiing The Ridge at Bridger Bowl, MT.
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  • The Aurora Borealis glows over spruce trees and a candle-lit tent. Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.
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  • Polar explorer Will Steger mushes across the frozen Arctic Ocean north of Canada, aglow in the midnight sun.
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  • Reinhold & Hubert Messner test sleds amidst pressure ridges before attempting to cross the Arctic Ocean from Severnaya Zemlya, Russia, to Canada, via the North Pole. Background mist rises from open water leads. Temperature is about minus 35 degrees F.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT EXPEDITION. Dogs & team struggle to keep sled from sinking into 10,000'-deep Arctic Ocean after thin ice broke near North Pole.
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  • INTL.ARCTIC PROJECT, Will Steger's dog team pulls sled over a pressure ridge on frozen Arctic Ocean.
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  • ARCTIC BLAST EXPED., Dog team mushes across sea ice south of Toloyoak, Nunavut, Canada.  Solar parhelion in sky. (MR)
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  • Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway.	Expedition skiers climb Nemtinov Peak above the Tunabreen Glacier.
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  • An expedition descends Nordenskjold Glacier on Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway.
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  • Mountaineer David Breashears leaves the last villages to explore the long-forbidden Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the deepest on earth, a sacred space for Tibetan Buddhists.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Tourists kakak around passenger ship Endeavor, which lies at anchor near Port Lockroy, off Brabant Island.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Adventure Network DC-4 takes off from bare ice glacier, Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains.  This was first private aviation company to ferry expeditions to the interior of Antarctica.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Twin Otter ski plane pilot Henry Perk flies in Ellsworth Mountains. Sun compass on right was used for navigation before GPS was publically available.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Ski mountaineer sleeps outside at Patriot Hills Tourist Expedition Base at 80 degrees south latitude in the Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mike Sharp navigates across featureless snow with sextant readings off sun while guiding South Pole Ski Expedition in 1988.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Jerry Corr (MR) in windy camp at 83 degrees south latitude during South Pole Ski Expedition in 1988.
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  • ANTARCTICA, South Pole Ski Expedition. Windy camp at 83 degrees south latitude on featureless polar plateau
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vinson Expedition. Dr. Lis Densmore (MR) pulls a heavy sled to Camp One, en route to becoming first woman to climb continent's 16 058-foot highest mountain. 15,918-foot Mount Tyree (third highest) is in background.  Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Dr. Lis Densmore, the first woman to climb Antarctica's highest peak, nears the 16,058' summit of Mount Vinson, often called the Vinson Massif.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Rime from breathing coats face & jacket of Dr. Lis Densmore after becoming 1st woman to climb 16,067' Mount Vinson, Antarctica's highest mountain. (Ellsworth Mountains).
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  • ANTARCTICA. Tourism, Mountaineers dig out stuck Adventure Network DC-4 near Patriot Hills tourist base.
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  • An aging DC-4 lands on the blue ice runway at Patriot Hills in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica.
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  • A ski mountaineer takes pictures from the Calley Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.  Behind is a summit sometimes called "Wiltsie's Peak."
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mike Farny (MR), taking a snow bath, Calley Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula
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  • ANTARCTICA, Ski mountaineer Tom Day (MR), on Calley Glacier, Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, during Warren Miller ski movie shoot.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Twin Otter ski plane flies over Calley Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula. Detroit Plateau bkg.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Ski mountaineer Mike Farny jumps icy serac on Mount Berry, Calley Glacier, Danco Coast during Warren Miller ski movie filming.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Ski mountaineer Brian Sisselman (MR) in powder snow on Detroit Plateau, above Calley Glacier, Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Ski mountaineer,Mike Farney climbs Mt.Berry, Danco Coast Antarctic Peninsula (MR)
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  • Mountaineers Tom Day and Mike Farny peer into a crevasse on the Calley Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Twin Otter airplane shadow crosses vast polar icecap near South Pole, featureless except for wind-carved sastrugi.
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  • Archaeologist Dr. Johan Reinhard meets with his team during an expedition to 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • Argentine Archaeologist Dr. Constanza Cerruti sifts through site of an Inca rest house below   22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where she helped to find the world’s highest mummies from an ancient sacrifice.
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  • ARGENTINA. Archaeologist carries load up Volcan Lllullullaico, third highest peak in South America, where expedition would discover world's highest Inca mummy.
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  • An archaeology team let by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • An archaeology team led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice. Behind are arid mountains and valleys of the vast South American Altiplano.
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  • An archaeology team led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • ANTARCTICA. First-ever Antarctic tourist base at Patriot Hills, (80 degrees south) on polar icecap near Ellsworth Mountains. Photo taken in January, 1987, 1st year of operation.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Ski expedition member parasails in katabatic winds on vast polar icecap near Ellsworth Mountains, at 80 degrees south latitude.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Lenticular clouds and spindrift snow above Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains. Note tiny hikers lower left.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineer Hector MacKenzie on bare ice glacier in southern Ellsworth Mountains.  Mount Fordell bkg.
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  • A crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) rests on an Antarctic ice floe while an tour expedition ship floats nearby.
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  • Tourists soak in a hot spring on Deception Island near Antarctica. In the background zodiac rafts shuttle passengers back and forth from the ship,   Clipper Adventurer.
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  • A zodiac driver from a cruise ships takes a few quiet moments below the calving face of a coastal glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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  • Tourists aboard the National Geographic Endeavor photograph mountains above the Lemaire Channel, Antarctica.
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  • A fearless Gentoo Penguin encounters a tourist on Petermann Island, Antarctica.
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  • Kayakers from the National Geographic Endeavor paddle near Port Lockroy on Goudier Island, Antarctica. Anvers Island is in the background.
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  • Kayakers paddle near Port Lockroy Museum on Goudier Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. Mountains on Anvers Island are in the background. in the background.
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  • A tourist photographs Gentoo Penguins in a rookery surrounding Port Lockroy Museum on tiny Goudier Island, Antarctica.  Behind is Mount Luigi, highest of the Seven Sisters of Fief in the Fief Mountains on Wienke Island.
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  • A weathered iceberg drifts in the Neumayer Channel near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. The National Geographic Endeavor is anchored in the background, adjacent to Wiencke Island.
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  • A Zodiac raft shuttles eco-tourists back to the National Geographic Endeavor, anchored in Godhul Bay, South Georgia, Antarctica.
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  • A Hercules C-130 unloads on the blue ice runway at Patriot Hills in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. 88-year Norman Vaughan practices crevasse rescue technique at Patriot Hills base.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. 88-year old Norman Vaughan talks on satellite phone at Patriot Hills Expedition base.
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  • ANTARCTICA. 88-year old Norman Vaughan first glimpses mountain in Trans-Antarctic Range named after him by Richard Byrd in 1929. He climbed it 2 weeks later.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. Norman Vaughan (88) and his guide Vern Tejas in base camp tent. (MR)
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. 88-year old Norman Vaughan below 10,302' Mount Vaughan, located less than 300 miles from South Pole and named for Norman in 1929 by explorer Richard Byrd. Norman climbed the peak in December 1994, 2 days shy of his 89th birthday.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition (Queen Maud Mountains region of Trans-Antarctic Mts.), Climbers on south ridge on 10,300' Mt. Vaughan.
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  • 88-year old Norman Vaughan and his wife Carolyn wait out a storm during their first ascent of Mount Vaughan, which was named after Norman for his service with Richard Byrd in 1929.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Vern Tejas guides Norman Vaughan (88) & wife Carolyn up mountain named for Norman in 1929 by Admiral  Byrd.  (MR)
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  • ANTARCTICA, Alejo Contreras checks for hidden crevasses at Camp Gould.
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  • ANTARCTICA.  Norman Vaughan, 88, climbs towards summit on first ascent of Mount Vaughan, a 10,302-foot mountain near the South Pole that was named for him by Richard Byrd in honor of his participation in Byrd's 1929 expedition to fly over the Pole.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Mountains. Vern Tejas (MR) on false summit of 10,302-foot Mount Vaughan, near the South Pole in the Queen Maud Mountains, part of the vast Trans-Antarctic Mountains.  Mount Goodale bkg.
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  • ANTARCTICA. 88-year old Norman Vaughan, exhausted, near summit of mountain named for him by Richard Byrd in 1929.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. Carolyn Muegge-Vaughan lights 89 birthday "candles" for Norman Vaughan atop 10,302' summit named for him by Richard Byrd.
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  • Alex Lowe and Conrad Anker stand at the bottom of Pyramid Peak in the Ellsworth Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Gordon Wiltsie on south ridge of Peak 3950m in the Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Conrad Anker (MR) climbs on Peak 3950m ("Pyramid") in the Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Alex Lowe (MR) climbs on Peak 3950m ("Pyramid Peak") in Antarctica's Ellsworth Mountains.
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