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  • ANTARCTICA. Ski expedition member parasails in katabatic winds on vast polar icecap near Ellsworth Mountains, at 80 degrees south latitude.
    AT 4454.jpg
  • A rare view of the icy spires east of Chile's huge southern icecap (under clouds), viewed from the Cordillera Sarmiento, to its south.
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  • A ski mountaineer climbs a peak above Lomonosov Icecap, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway.
    SV 0630.jpg
  • 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.
    AT 3854.jpg
  • An expedition skier climbs above Lomonosov Icecap, Spitsbergen Island, Norway.
    SV 0523.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Hikers on polar icecap below Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains.
    AT 4806.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Alejo Contreras Staeding parasails in katabatic winds on polar icecap near Patriot Hills at 80 degrees south latitude. Three Sails nunataks bkg.
    AT 4457.jpg
  • 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.
    QM 7100.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineer Hector MacKenzie on first ascent of Mount Simmons in southern Ellsworth Mountains.  Vast polar icecap background.
    AT 5412.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineer atop Independence Hills in southern Ellsworth Mountains.  Dr. Lis Densmore (MR).  Vast polar icecap in background.
    AG 3070.jpg
  • Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. A climber atop Mount Shinn, third highest peak on the continent.
    AG 2390.jpg
  • The Troll's Castle and Filchner Mountains cast long shadows at midnight, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.  (Mount Gessnertind & Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains bkg.)
    QM 8653.jpg
  • 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.
    QM 6514.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land. Mount Ulvetanna and Fenris Mountains.
    QM 1119.jpg
  • 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.
    AT 4555.jpg
  • A snow cat drives towards the old dome at Amundsen Scott science base, run by the United States at the South Pole, Antarctica.  (Taken in 1989.  This has subsequently been replaced by more modern and efficient structures.)
    AP 0872.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Minaret Peak in the Marble Hills, Ellsworth Mountains (80 degress south latitude.)
    AG 3267.jpg
  • 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.
    SP 033.jpg
  • Veteran Russian polar explorer, Victor Boyarsky, leads the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition across the vast polar plateau.
    SP 016.jpg
  • Mountaineer Michael Graber ascends a satellite peak of the Troll's Castle (bkg.) in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.  Behind is the vast polar plateau.
    QM 7970.jpg
  • MOUNTAINEERING, ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe in Portaledge camp 1700' up Rakekniven spire, Filchner Mountains, Queen Maud Land.
    QM 6286.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land. Mike Graber ascends rope on overhanging cliff on Rakekniven spire, Filchner Mountains.
    QM 5436.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Igloo built by climbers at Patriot Hills expedition base in the Ellsworth Mountains.
    AX 3063.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. Camp I (Camp Goodale) on north ridge of Mount Vaughan.  Base camp with Twin Otter ski planes bkg.
    AV 2219.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. 88-year old Norman Vaughan talks on satellite phone at Patriot Hills Expedition base.
    AV 0366.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Northern Ellsworth Mountains, highest range on the continent.
    AT 5753.jpg
  • 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.)
    AT 5730.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Lenticular clouds and spindrift snow above Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains. Note tiny hikers lower left.
    AT 4804.jpg
  • 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.
    AG 2157.jpg
  • Led by distant Victor Boyarsky, a dogsled from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition navigates across the vast polar plateau.
    SP 028.jpg
  • Gruvleflesa Spire glows in midnight sun in the Holtedahl Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 8878.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land.  Vista looking north over Filchner Mountains with midnight sun and shadows. Rakekniven spire is in right bkg. and Trolls Castle on left.
    QM 8660.jpg
  • Mike Sharp sets up a tent in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.  Mt. Ulvetanna and Fenris Mountains in background.
    QM 0915.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. 2525-meter Mount Zanuck in the Gothic Mountains, which are part of the Queen Maud Range, of the extensive Trans-Antarctic Mountains.
    AV 0706.jpg
  • Rick Ridgeway warms himself in morning sun while climbing a  satellite peak of the Troll's Castle, Filchner Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 7988.jpg
  • Mountaineer Michael Graber ascends a satellite peak of the Troll's Castle (bkg.) in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.  Behind is the vast polar plateau.
    QM 7962.jpg
  • The northern Ellsworth Mountains rise above Antarctica's vast polar plateau.
    AT 5750.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Cross country skier below Patriot Hills, in the southern Ellsworth Mountains, at 80 degrees south latitude.  Mount Fordell background.
    AT 4169.jpg
  • A skier descends steep powder slopes below the Detroit Plateau, far inland on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Nunataks south of Vinson Massif in Ellsworth Mountains. Vast polar plateau in background.
    AG 1963.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Ski mountaineer sleeps outside at Patriot Hills Tourist Expedition Base at 80 degrees south latitude in the Ellsworth Mountains.
    AG 0813.jpg
  • Ice fog and haze hang over the Amundsen Glacier and Queen Maud Mountains in Antarctica.
    AV 1179.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
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  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-426-2.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-420.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-316.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-303.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-278.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-275.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-433-2.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-419.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-397.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-341.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-318.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-309.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-394.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-351-2.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-268.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-407.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-352-2.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-314.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-299.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-267.jpg
  • Lomonosov Icecap, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway.	A polar explorer stands atop a mountain surrounded by huge glaciers.
    SV 0687.jpg
  • The Fenris Mountains glow in midnight sun, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 8827.jpg
  • Ski mountaineers descend the Filchner Mountains in Queen Maud Land.
    QM 7694.jpg
  • Filchner Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. An expedition skier ascends Mount Kubus in front of Troll's Castle.
    QM 7570.jpg
  • Alex Lowe relaxes in a hanging Portaledge camp 1700 feet above the glacier on Rakekniven ("The Razor"), a massive overhanging cliff in the Filchner Mountains of Queen Maud Land Antarctica.
    QM 6245.jpg
  • Midnight sun shines over a bare ice glacier & the Fenris Mountains.
    QM 2270.jpg
  • A ski plane is dwarfed by an immense bare ice glacier in Queen Maud Land.
    QM 2230.jpg
  • A rock-strewn glacier flows out of the Wolthat Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 1715.jpg
  • A wind-blown bare ice glacier glistens near the Wolthat Mountains.
    QM 1635.jpg
  • An expedition sets up camp below the Fenris Mountains, Queen Maud Land.
    QM 0916.jpg
  • Mount Ulvetanna (R) & the Fenris Mountains tower over the Fenris Glacier.
    QM 0839.jpg
  • Conrad Anker & Alex Lowe climb the summit spire of The Troll's Castle, in the Filchner Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 7940.jpg
  • Conrad Anker relaxes near the summit of Mount Kubus with the Filchner Mountains in the background, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 7632.jpg
  • A mountaineer skis near the Muhlig-Hoffman Mountains in Queen Maud Land.
    QM 6887.jpg
  • Rick Ridgeway & Alex Lowe congratulate each other after reaching the  summit of Rakekniven spire in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 6575.jpg
  • 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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  • Lonely mountains poke through a mile-thick glacier in Queen Maud Land.
    QM 0888.jpg
  • Mounts Kinntanna, Stetind & Ulvetanna (L to R) in the Fenris Mountains, Antarctica.
    QM 0862.jpg
  • Midnight sun glows on the  Muhlig-Hofman Mountains in western Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
    QM 0643.jpg
  • 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.
    AG 1170.jpg
  • Mountaineers stand atop one of the highest peaks of Chile's previously unexplored Cordillera Sarmiento at the tip of Patagonia's southern icecap (Hielo Sur.)
    CE 1664.jpg
  • Jay Jensen above Lomonosov Icecap, Svalbard Ski Exped. (80 deg. N. lat.)
    SV 0526.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-386-2.jpg
  • Skiers above Lomonosov Icecap, Svalbard Ski Expedition (80 del. N. Lat.)
    SV 0610.jpg
  • CORDILLERA SARMIENTO, Patagonia, Chile. Skier below crevasses on highest icecap of this previously unexplored range (Phillip Lloyd) (MR).
    CE 1416.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-387-2.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-348-2.jpg
  • Ice towers called seracs teeter at the calving front of Grey Glacier, where Chile's huge southern icecap flows into Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park.
    CHe 080205-335-2.jpg
  • Jay Jensen above Lomonosov Icecap, Svalbard Ski Expedition (80 deg. N. Lat.)
    SV 0533.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Skiers on icecap below Mt. Kubus, Filchner Mts., Queen Maud Land.
    QM 6836.jpg
  • Mountaineers stand below the highest peaks of Chile's previously unexplored Cordillera Sarmiento at the tip of Patagonia's southern icecap (Hielo Sur.)
    CE 3716.jpg
  • A mountaineer skis past seracs and crevasses on the icecap atop Chile's weather-beaten Cordillera Sarmiento, a previously unexplored range.
    CE 1419.jpg
  • CORD.SARMIENTO EXP., Tyler Van Arsdell skis on high icecap of the unexplored Patagonian range.
    CE 1240.jpg
  • An Inuit hunter pokes his harpoon at an iceberg frozen into the sea ice of Baffin Bay, west of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada.  This source of remarkably pure water has drifted in from the rapidly melting icecap of Greenland.
    BI 2835.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Twin Otter airplane shadow crosses vast polar icecap near South Pole, featureless except for wind-carved sastrugi.
    AP 0546.jpg
  • SPITSBERGEN, Norway, Jay Jensen above Lomonosov Icecap, Svalbard Ski Exped. (80 deg.N.lat.) (MR).
    SV 0548.jpg
  • Jay Jensen above Lomonosov Icecap, Svalbard Ski Expedition (80 deg. N. Lat.)
    SV 0544.jpg
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