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 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 ...
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.