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Expedition Aims
Climbing Objectives in Graham Land
There have been very few mountaineering expeditions to Antarctica. The
difficulties of access and remoteness coupled with the challenges of the cold
and weather that can change by the minute has deterred most climbers over the
years.
There has been a growing interest in the 21st
century in the mountaineering possibilities in Antarctica. Huge areas of
unexplored glaciers ringed by unclimbed peaks throw up an obvious challenge to
adventurous mountaineers.
After our 500 mile journey aboard Pelagic across the Southern Ocean, we will set
up a base camp on the boat in Darbel Bay. From there we intend to establish
ourselves on land and make the journey over two or three days up one of the
glaciers into the heart of the Peninsula, where we will establish an advanced
base camp.
From this camp we hope to explore and make ascents of some of the many unclimbed
peaks in the area. Most of these peaks are not even marked on any maps, but
obvious objectives include some of the prominent peaks such as Slessor peaks,
and Zilva peaks.
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