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  • Expedition leaders Will Steger & Jean-Louis Etienne play at the ceremonial South Pole, halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Expedition leader Will Steger sleeps in his tent at the South Pole, halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Expedition leader Will Steger plays beside the ceremonial South Pole, halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • CORDILLERA SARMIENTO EXPEDITION, Patagonia, Chile. Team endures storm squalls in Taraba Sound while fishing to supplement low expedition food supplies. LtoR: Philip Lloyd, Tyler Van Arsdell, Rob Hart (MR)
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  • EXPEDITION. Michael Graber show feelings about breakfast in base camp for big wall expedition to climb Rakekniven Spire in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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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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  • Members of the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition pose for pictures at the ceremonial South Pole.  From left to right: Keizo Funatsu (Japan), Jean-Louis Etienne (France), Will Steger (USA), Qin Dahe (China), Geoff Somers (UK), and Victor Boyarsky (USSR).
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  • Dogsleds from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition navigate across the vast polar plateau near the South Pole.  In the distant background is USA's Amundsen-Scott science base.
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  • Veteran Russian polar explorer, Victor Boyarsky, leads the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition across the vast polar plateau.
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  • Keizo Funatsu melts snow for water in his tent at the South Pole, halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Victor Boyarsky snacks on cheese in his tent at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Jean-Louis Etienne writes in his journal at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Will Steger fills water bottles with melted snow while Qin Dahe sips tea in their tent at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Polar explorer Will Steger looks at a vast horizon beyond the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Led by distant Victor Boyarsky, a dogsled from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition navigates across the vast polar plateau.
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  • With fanfare from the staff at America's Amundsen-Scott science base, the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition departs from the South Pole.
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  • Two Saudi Arabian sponsors of the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition pray towards Mecca from the South Pole.
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  • Geoff Somers reads mail from home after reaching the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Having reached the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition, Jean-Louis Etienne and Victor Boyarsky attempt to radio news to the outside world.
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  • Members of the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition clown for a picture at the ceremonial South Pole.
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  • Jean-Louis Etienne & Victor Boyarsky relax in their tent at the South Pole, halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Keizo Funatsu, Will Steger and Qin Dahe guide their dogsleds across the vast polar plateau near the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • A sled dog yawns in a camp at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Will Steger teases one of his dogs with one of several hams donated to the canines by staff at America's Amundsen-Scott science base at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition, leaders Will Steger & Jean-Louis Etienne admire photos of earlier explorers during a brief stopover at the South Pole.
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  • Will Steger and Victor Boyarsky pose at the ceremonial South Pole, halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Members of the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition pose for sponsor pictures at the ceremonial South Pole, about halfway through their journey.
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  • Will Steger refuels his Coleman Stove - a vital survival tool - at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Victor Boyarsky writes the latitude and longitude on his tent at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.  (The latitude does not read an exact 90 degrees south because he is camped a few hundred meters from the true Pole.
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  • Dog teams from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition cross the vast polar plateau, near the South Pole.
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  • Dog teams from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition navigate across the vast polar plateau near the South Pole.
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  • Dog teams from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition navigate across the vast polar plateau near the South Pole,
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  • Keizo Funatsu and Victor Boyarsky celebrate their arrival at the South Pole,  about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Victor Boyarsky leads dogsleds of the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition through condensing ice crystals on the vast polar plateau near the South Pole.
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  • Geoff Somers and Keizo Funatsu melt snow for water in their tent at the South Pole, halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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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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  • During on of many bad weather days, two expedition members fish from a motorized raft in Taraba Sound, a Chilean fjord below Patagonia's previously unexplored Cordillera Sarmiento.  Behind them are southern beech trees.
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  • ANTARCTICA, South Pole Ski Expedition. Windy camp at 83 degrees south latitude on featureless polar plateau
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  • ARCTIC BLAST EXPEDITION.  Dogsled crosses sea ice east of King William Island, Nunavut, Canada (MR).
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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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  • CORDILLERA SARMIENTO EXPEDITION, CHILE. Mountaineer Jack Miller (MR) rests in mossy rain forest in this previously unexplored mountain range above the southern fjords of Patagonia.
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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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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. Camp I (Camp Goodale) on north ridge of Mount Vaughan.  Base camp with Twin Otter ski planes bkg.
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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. 88-year Norman Vaughan practices crevasse rescue technique at Patriot Hills base.
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  • A Sherpa guide herds a train of yaks carrying expedition equipment down from a climbing school run near the Cho La Pass by the Eastern Sierra Himalayan Expedition in fall 1980.  Cholatse Peak in the the right background.
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  • A mountaineer camps atop a 16,000+ foot pass near the end of an expedition to ski from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.  Later that day the team was avalanched over a cliff on the other side of the pass and the photographer crushed two vertebrae, but the team managed to finish the expedition successfully under their own power.
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  • A mountaineer camps atop a 16,000+ foot pass near the end of an expedition to ski from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.  Later that day the team was avalanched over a cliff on the other side of the pass and the photographer crushed two vertebrae, but the team managed to finish the expedition successfully under their own power.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND. Expedition members in Clyde River, enroute to big wall climbing expedition.
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  • Dr. Peter Hackett during Baruntse Climbing Expedition, Nepal, 1980.
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  • John Fischer shows off his weight loss after the expedition.
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  • Gordon Wiltsie on the Baruntse Climbing Expedition, 1980 Nepal.
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  • Dr. Peter Hackett on a 1980 Baruntse expedition.  Ama Dablam and the Imja Valley visible in the background.  Khumbu region, Nepal.
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  • Expedition sirdar Tsering Ongchu takes  a rest on Imja Glacier
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  • Baruntse Climbing Expedition, 1980.  Peter Hacket, John Fischer, Jay Jensen, Gordon Wiltsie
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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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  • Expedition members ski near the Fenris Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Mount Ulvetanna is the large peak in the left background.
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Sherpa elder Dawa Tenzing, (1907-1985), veteran of 1924 Mallory/Irvine expedition & first Nepal-side Everest expeditions. (1980 photo).
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Inuit guides, snowmobiles & Great Sail Peak expedition members beside icebergs on frozen Baffin Bay.
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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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  • 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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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT. Will Steger's sled dogs run through new snow near North Pole on Arctic Ocean, during 1995 expedition from Russia to Canada.
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Sherpa elder Dawa Tenzing, (1907-1985), veteran of 1924 Mallory/Irvine expedition & first Nepal-side Everest expeditions. (1980 photo).
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  • Camped atop a 16,000+ foot pass, ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta looks back at some of the gorges his team followed during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.  Just hours later, on the other side of the pass, the team was caught in an avalanche and the photographer crushed two vertebrae, but the group finished their journey under their own power.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Expedition snowmobiles into Stewart Valley, a setting of huge polar cliffs.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Inuit guides tie snomobiles together to tow heavy load up hill en route to Great Sail Peak expedition.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada. Climbing expedition members entertain high school children in Clyde River, Nunavut.
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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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  • A wheeled C-130 Hercules lands on a bare ice glacier in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, carrying an expedition to climbing the background Filchner Mountains.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada, Great Sail Peak.  Expedition route goes just right of central summit gully.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Inuit offerings left on summit of Great Sail Peak by climbing expedition.  Stewart Valley bkg.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit snowmobiles pull mountaineering expedition members across frozen lake in remote Stewart Valley, north of Clyde River.  The temperature is below zero, F, and Sail Peaks are in background.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mountaineering expedition & its Inuit guides' snowmobiles parked by iceberge on frozen Baffin Bay.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe pushes Inuit snowmobile carrying expedition equipment to Great Sail Peak.
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  • Inuit mukluks & modern mitts dry in a hunter's hut on Canada's Baffin Island, where an expedition is storm-bound for 4 days.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Snowmobiles carrying Great Sail Peak expedition break down just after leaving Clyde River.
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  • A pack train for a National Geographic archaeology expedition descends from Choquetecarpo Pass (5100+ meters) in Peru's Cordillera Vilcabamba mountains, en route to Cerro Victoria at the end of the canyon (Quebrada Moyoc).
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  • A pack train for a National Geographic archaeology expedition rests atop Choquetecarpo Pass (5100+ meters) in Peru's Cordillera Vilcabamba mountains..
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  • A Ski Mountaineers follows a stream in the Warwan Valley, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta explores around a camp below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Bearing heavy packs, ski mountaineers Allan Pietrasanta and Jay Jensen descend below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir, across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mark Synnott & Greg Child (MR) endure rain & wind during descent from month-long, big wall rock climbing expedition on Great Sail Peak.
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  • ALEX LOWE during Great Sail Peak expedition, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada. Greg Child surveys sudden meltwater lake threatening to flood base camp tent during Sail Peak climbing expedition.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA.  Expedition stops to repair snowmobiles on Remote Peninsula, between Sam Ford Fjord and Stewart Valley.
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  • ANTARCTICA.  Norman Vaughan, 88, exhausted as he 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. He summit two days before his 89th birthday. Carolyn Muegge-Vaughan background. Trans-Antarctic Mountains.
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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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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada. Greg Child surveys sudden meltwater lake threatening to flood base camp tent during Sail Peak climbing expedition.
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  • Alex Lowe climbs on a boulder at the base camp for big wall climbing expedition up Great Sail Peak (not visible) on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • Tibetan porters carry loads for an expedition into the dense forests of the Tsangpo River Gorge in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • An expedition descends Nordenskjold Glacier on Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING, SPITSBERGEN, Norway. Jay Jensen (MR) rewarms from sub-zero polar cold on ski expedition at 80 degrees north latitude.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT, Expedition members plot most efficient route from North Pole to Ellesmere Island.
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  • WILL STEGER in -40 degree temperatures off coast of Severnaya Zemlya (Russia), en route to Canada via the frozen Arctic Ocean & North Pole, International Arctic Project dogsled expedition.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT, Expedition Leader Will Steger & Ulrik Vedel with sled dogs.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Dr. Ibrahim Abdulhamid Alam, one of first Saudi Arabians to visit South Pole, as a sponsor to Will Steger's Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • An expedition skier on Europe's classic Haute Route traverse climbs a pass above France's Trient Glacier, enroute from Chamonix to Zermatt.
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  • Expedition skiers pass Rakekniven spire in Filchner Mountains.
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  • Rick Ridgeway eats a granola breakfast during an expedition to Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • Expedition members ski near the wind-whipped Filchner Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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