It has four steep sides and is located in the southern Ellsworth Mountains — a chain of jagged peaks first spotted during a flight by American aviator Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935, according to a U ...
Further south lie the Ellsworth Mountains. Finally, the Transantarctic Mountains run north to south, splitting the continent into East and West Antarctica. Mount Vinson is in the Sentinel Range of ...
Using the latest "geo-fingerprinting" techniques, they've established with strong confidence that it comes from the Ellsworth Mountains - some 1,300km from where the rock was pulled up from the ...
Dave's route But we had Dave Hahn, who knows the Ellsworth mountains and the conditions on Vinson better than anyone, after 19 ascents by another route. He had chosen a route that would be the ...
For safety reasons, the course was designed in laps around the Union Glacier in Antarctica, looping through the breathtaking but unforgiving expanses of ice in the Ellsworth Mountains. Italian ...