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  • A mountaineer rejoices atop Mount Shinn, 3rd highest peak in Antarctica.
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  • 15,919 foot Mount Tyree, the second highest in Antarctica, towers above the Northern Ellsworth Mountains. (This image shot from Mount Shinn, the 3rd highest mountain).
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  • Conrad Anker climbs on Peak 3950m ("Pyramid") in Antarctica's Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • A mountain climber summits Mount Bearskin.
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  • Michael Holmes, a cook at Patriot Hills expedition base near Antarctica's Ellsworth Mountains, collects meal ingredients from a huge snow cave that is used as a freezer.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING. Mike McDowell on summit ridge of 4650-meter Mount Shinn, Antarctica's third highest summit. 4,852-meter Mount Tyree (Antarctica's second highest peak) in background.  Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for an informal party in a snow cave they dug.
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  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for a portrait
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  • A cook (Michael Holmes) serves dinner in the dining tent at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base, the first private aviation hub in Antarctica.
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  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for an informal party in a snow cave they dug.
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  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for an informal party in a snow cave they dug.
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  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for an informal party in a snow cave they dug.
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  • A cook at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base descends into a snow cave used as a huge outdoor freezer.
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  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for an informal party in a snow cave they dug.
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  • Clients and staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for dinner in the main dining tent, which is decorated for Christmas.
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  • Anne Kershaw and Fran Orlo admire a birthday card painted by Conrad Anker (not shown) in the dinning tent at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base.
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  • A cook (Michael Holmes) serves fish for dinner in the dining tent at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base, the first private aviation hub in Antarctica.
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  • A cook (Michael Holmes) for the dining tent at Adventure Network's  Patriot Hills expediton base serves dinner made from fresh food flown in from South America.  On right is Mike Sharp, base manager.
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  • With gusts in his face, South Pole Ski Expedition member J.K. Bajaj of India (MR) negotiates wind-sculpted sastrugi snow by a small nunatak at 80 degrees south latitude in Antarctica.
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  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for an informal party in a snow cave they dug.
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  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base stand above a  snow cave they dug.
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  • A humorous "weather station" invented by staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expedition base, the only private aviation hub in Antarctica.
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  • Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. A climber atop Mount Shinn, third highest peak on the continent.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineer Hector MacKenzie on first ascent of Mount Simmons in southern Ellsworth Mountains.  Vast polar icecap background.
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  • A lone ski mountaineer stands atop the Patriot Hills in the southern Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vinson Expedition. Dr.Lis Densmore (MR) builds snow wall below continent's highest summit to protect camp from high polar winds. Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe & Conrad Anker(MR) camped on Patton Glacier, Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe (MR) atop a pinnacle on 2850-meter Mount Bearskin 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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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineering. Mike McDowell (MR) atop 15,292' (4661m) Mount Shinn, third highest peak on continent. (Ellsworth Mountains)
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineer atop Independence Hills in southern Ellsworth Mountains.  Dr. Lis Densmore (MR).  Vast polar icecap in background.
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  • Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica.	An explorer drives an ATV across a shimmering bare ice glacier.
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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. Gordon Wiltsie on south ridge of Peak 3950m in the Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Minaret Peak in the Marble Hills, Ellsworth Mountains (80 degress south latitude.)
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  • ANTARCTICA. Hikers on polar icecap below Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Igloo built by climbers at Patriot Hills expedition base in the Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Lenticular clouds and spindrift snow above Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains. Note tiny hikers lower left.
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  • Sun and Lenticular clouds over a bare ice glacier near the Patriot Hills in Antarctica's southern Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Nunataks south of Vinson Massif in Ellsworth Mountains. Vast polar plateau in background.
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  • Sun and lenticular clouds over a bare ice glacier near the Patriot Hills in Antarctica's southern Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Cross country skier below Patriot Hills, in the southern Ellsworth Mountains, at 80 degrees south latitude.  Mount Fordell background.
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  • A hiker crosses a bare ice glacier below the Patriot Hills in the southern Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica.  This glacier, polished by katabatic winds, is the ongoing site of the first-ever wheeled aircraft landings on the continent.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Conrad Anker (MR) climbs Mt. Bearskin (2850m), Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • With (the late) pioneering Antarctic pilot Giles Kershaw at the stick, a Cessna 185 ski plane takes off from a bare ice glacier at Patriot Hills in the Southern Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica.
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  • ANTARCTICA.  Ski-equipped Twin Otter lands on Patton Glacier, Ellsworth Mts.
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  • A Twin Otter ski plane flies by the 16,067' Mount Massif, Antarctica's highest mountain.
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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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  • 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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  • 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. 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, 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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  • ANTARCTICA, Mountaineering.  Toilet barrels for flying out human waste from Mount Vinson base camp, Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineer Hector MacKenzie on bare ice glacier in southern Ellsworth Mountains.  Mount Fordell bkg.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineer Hector MacKenzie on bare ice glacier in southern Ellsworth Mountains.  Mount Fordell bkg.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineering. Mike McDowell atop 15,292' (4661m) Mount Shinn, third highest peak on continent. (Ellsworth Mountains)
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  • ANTARCTICA. Northern Ellsworth Mountains, highest range on the continent.
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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, 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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  • The northern Ellsworth Mountains rise above Antarctica's vast polar plateau.
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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. Veteran Polar Pilot, Giles Kershaw, In Cessna 185.  2 Months After This Photo Was Taken In December, 1989, He Was Killed In A Gyrocopter Crash.
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  • Alex Lowe climbs the east ridge of Mount Bearskin in the northern Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica. Mount Tyree, 3rd highest peak on the continent, is on right.  Vinson Massif, highest point, is in far background.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Alex Lowe (MR) climbs Mount Bearskin (2850m) in northern Ellsworth Mountains.  Mount Tyree background.
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  • Mountaineers Conrad Anker and the late Alex Lowe ascend the east ridge of Mount Bearskin, above the Patton Glacier in Antarctica's Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • The seldom-seen northeast side of Mount Tyree (4852m), Antarctica's second highest mountain, towers above the Patton Glacier in the Ellsworth Mountains.
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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 Alex Lowe & Conrad Anker (MR) ski on Patton Glacier, Ellsworth Mountains. 15,915' Mt. Tyree bkg. (Antarctica's 2nd highest peak)
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  • A small, ski-equipped Cessna flies over the  Antarctica's southern Ellsworth Mountains
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  • ANTARCTICA, Conrad Anker (MR) climbs on Peak 3950m ("Pyramid") in the Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Antarctica. Alex Lowe & Conrad Anker (MR) ski on Patton Glacier. Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Mt. Vinson Massif (16, 059') Antarctica's highest summit. Ellsworth Mts.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Twin Otter ski plane flies by 16,067' Mt. Vinson Massif (Antarctica's highest summit).  Ellsworth Mts.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Conrad Anker (MR) sets up tent in violent storm near Mt.Vinson, Ellsworth Mts.
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  • Antarctica. Alex Lowe, Conrad Anker & Dave Hahn (MR) approach Mt. Tyree. Ellsworth Mts.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Alex Lowe (MR) runs beside bare ice glacier below Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mts.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Conrad Anker (MR) in violent storm near Mt.Vinson, Ellsworth Mts.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Expedition ties down Twin Otter in violent storm near Mt.Vinson, Ellsworth Mts.
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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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  • A Hercules C-130 unloads on the blue ice runway at Patriot Hills in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica.
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  • High Peaks of the northern Sentinal Range of Antarctica's Ellsworth Mountains.  L to R: Mount Davis (snowy ridge,) Mount Bentley, Mount Sisu, Mount Anderson (left of deep col), Long Gables and Peak 4111meters (far right.)
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  • ANTARCTICA, Alex Lowe & Conrad Anker(MR) camped on Patton Glacier, Ellsworth Mountains.
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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, Ellsworth Mountains. Vinson Massif, (16,067'), Antarctica's highest, &  Mt.Shinn (L) (15,291'), 3rd highest.
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  • Katabatic winds and orographic clouds pour over Mount Fordell, the Patriot Hills and southern Ellsworth Mountains.  In the foreground is a wind-polished bare ice glacier that is regularly used by expeditions to land large wheeled airplanes and is the site of both a private expedition base and a Chilean science station.
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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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  • ANTARCTICA. Wheeled C-130 Hercules lands on ice runway at Patriot Hills expedition base in Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING, ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe climbs on Mount Bearskin in the Ellsworth Mts. Mt. Tyree, the 2nd highest summit in Antarctica bkgnd.
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  • Alex Lowe (MR) climbs on Mt. Bearskin, Ellsworth Mts., Antarctica.  Mt. Tyree bkg.
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  • Alex Lowe (MR) atop a sub pinnacle on Mount Bearskin, Ellsworth Mts., Antarctica.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Twin Otter flies by 16,067' Mt. Vinson, Ellsworth Mts.  (Highest mountain on the continent).
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