These mountains are noteworthy not only for their remote, extreme environment but also for their rich geological history and the challenges they present to mountaineers and researchers alike. Key ...
The Antarctic SummerThe fall climbing season has ended in the Himalayas, home to the fourteen 8,000-meter peaks – the highest ...
A pyramid-shaped mountain in Antarctica, resembling the Great Pyramid of Giza, has sparked curiosity. Scientists explain that ...
"The thought was that if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to collapse then ice could flood out from the east. But the mountains we've found effectively put a plug in that bottleneck." Tom Jordan ...
Britain has a new tallest mountain. Mt Hope, which is sited in the part of the Antarctic claimed by the UK, was recently re-measured and found to tower above the previous title holder, Mt Jackson ...
This type of journey usually starts in Cape Town, South Africa, where you fly private to an ice runway on mainland Antarctica ...
The Gamburtsev mountain range was discovered in 1958 during International Geophysical Year by a Soviet Antarctic expedition and named after Grigoriy Gamburtsev, a Russian geophysicist.