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By Edmund Stump
The Transantarctic Mountains are the main distant mountain belt on the earth, an totally pristine wasteland of ice and rock emerging to majestic heights and lengthening for 1,500 miles. during this publication, Edmund Stump is the 1st to teach us this continental-scale mountain procedure in all its beautiful good looks and desolation, and the 1st to supply a complete, totally illustrated historical past of the region's discovery and exploration.The writer not just has carried out vast learn within the Transantarctic Mountains in the course of his forty-year occupation as a geologist yet has additionally systematically photographed the full quarter. choosing the right of the easiest of his greater than 8,000 images, he offers not anything lower than the 1st atlas of those mountains. additionally, he examines the unique firsthand bills of the heroic Antarctic explorations of James Clark Ross (who came across the mountain variety within the early 1840s), Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, Richard Byrd, and scientists partaking within the overseas Geophysical yr (1957–1958). From those documents, Stump is now capable of hint the particular routes of the early explorers with exceptional accuracy. With maps outdated and new, gorgeous photos by no means earlier than released, and stories of intrepid explorers, this e-book takes the armchair traveller on an excursion to the Antarctic wasteland that few have ever obvious. (20110303)
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Littering the base of the cliV were angular blocks of granite that had fallen from the outcrops above. This was the first granite found in outcrop in the Transantarctic Mountains, and Scott named the embayment Granite Harbour. The men scrambled along the foot of the steep cliV, found a route to climb to the top, and then hiked to the west along the crest. As they walked, they found orange lichens and clumps of green moss. The latter contained a primitive, wingless insect, Collembola, akin to the springtails that had first been discovered at Cape Adare by Borchgrevink’s party.
In 1912, during Scott’s ill-fated southern journey, a party led by Taylor (yellow) retraced Scott’s path onto Discovery Bluff and explored into the middle reaches of Mackay Glacier (see Figs. 16). encircled by steep bluVs of dark red and brown rock, several hundred feet high, which converged on a glacier emptying into the head of the bay (Fig. 14). The ice floes were extremely smooth and gave the appearance of having formed under quite protected conditions. They had only recently broken up, and were most peculiar looking in that they were cracked into perfect rectangles, unlike the typical polygonal floes ground or hoved up at their boundaries.
I am aboard the third as it approaches camp. The Trip Down 16 in full survival gear, including parka, windpants and liner, “bear-paw” mittens, and the white, rubber footwear that everyone calls “Bunny boots,” because they resemble Bugs Bunny’s feet. The crew chief, a fifty-something sergeant with a potbelly and a one-piece jumpsuit zipped open way too far, briefed us on safety procedures. As the plane’s engines began to whine, I twisted in my earplugs, retreating to a private world of adrenaline.