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**Latest News**
(updated 16.03.2007)
"Antarctica...
A name almost mystic in it’s evocation
of extremes. A land nearly ten million square kilometres surrounded by seas
whipped by cold and violent winds and clogged with gigantic icebergs. Terra
incognita until modern times, and even today imperfectly known, it is roughly
circular in outline and almost equidistant from Australia, New Zealand and
Africa, with Tierra Del Fuego it’s nearest neighbour. Its coasts are protected
from intruders by belts of pack ice sometimes hundreds of kilometres wide.
Great ice cliffs dropping sheer into freezing waters add further warning that
this is no easy conquest.”
Sir Ernest Shackleton,during his
Nimrod expedition of 1907 to 1909
In January 2007 a team of 6 from Britain left the
coast of Tierra del Fuego in the 56ft Yacht ‘Pelagic’...
....Bound for Graham Land, Antarctica
Even today when the worlds populations has grown to over 6½
Billion, less than two hundred thousand have visited Antarctica and the
majority of those that have were taken by modern “adventure cruise” ships to
the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula to stand for a few hours amongst
the old whaling stations and expedition huts or have flown in to work at the
“scientific stations” put there by those nations who have staked a claim on
this, the last great wilderness.
In January and February, 2007, a team of six experienced
mountaineers and sailors from Britain sailed the 56 foot yacht Pelagic from
Tierra Del Fuego, through the Beagle Channel and across Drakes Passage to
Antarctica with the intention of exploring an area of Graham Land on the
Antarctic Peninsula, during the expedition they explored some of the
previously unvisited areas of Graham Land, and made first ascents of some
of the many unclimbed peaks in the this area. The possible routes involved
technical ice climbing as well as alpine style routes on ridges and buttresses.
Read more....
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