Climbing Antarctica’s Unexplored Mountains | National Geographic

this is one of the most challenging
environments for a climber you can visit
anywhere on planet Earth
big part of the game is approaching
these unclimbed unexplored mountains and
and looking for the coolest way to get
to the top that for us as climbers is
the path we spent a week ski touring
around looking you know with binoculars
at every mountain within striking
distance of us and this is without a
doubt the proudest line we found the
environment is so hostile you die up
here in a matter of hours without the
right gear and the right expertise this
is like the SWAT team special weapons
and tactics this is an eight climene or
free climbing or speed climbing this is
just like whatever it takes climbing
it’ll be spicy for sure every day we
wake up
we don’t know what we’re gonna be able
to do safely
you definitely have to work for
everything in Antarctica nothing is a
given you have to earn it
unpredictability it’s about you know the
unknown
hundreds of mountains that are unclimbed
it’s like being an astronaut going up
there going into outer space you need to
have a survival suit on you need to be
prepared for everything as a
counterbalance to that extreme
consequence and severity is just these
moments of surreal otherworldly beauty
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