Mountaineering in Antarctica

par Damien Gildea

An absolute must for all climbers! A unique reference in mountaineering and polar books.

For the first time the peaks and ranges of the world's wildest continent in one place for all to see!

Antarctica is home to one of the greatest collections of unclimbed mountains on earth, but Antarctica is not unexplored. The mountains of Antarctica have a rich human history that spans a century and features some of the greatest names in the annals of exploration and mountaineering - Shackleton, Tilman, Hillary, Bonatti, Messner and many stars of modern alpinism have all been drawn South.

The climbing in this other world traverses the vast empty ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains, past the soaring rock spires of Queen Maud Land, across the roof of the continent in the Sentinel Range, winding along the complex beauty of the Antarctic Peninsula and on up to the storm swept island of South Georgia.

This comprehensive overview of mountaineering in Antarctica encompasses journeys from the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration, through the expansion of international scientific activity in the latter half of the Twentieth Century, up to the modern adventure tourism of the new millenium.

This is a tribute to the mountains themselves and to the experiences of those who travelled amongst them - their triumphs, travails and tragedies.

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