Binding: Hardcover
Description: With stunning original photographs an Antarctic scientist and explorer takes us to one of the most sublime remote and pristine regions on the planet. The interior of Antarctica is an utterly pristine wilderness a desolate landscape of ice wind and rock; a landscape so unfamiliar as to seem of another world. This place has been known to only a handful of early explorers and the few scientists fortunate enough to have worked there. Edmund Stump is one of the lucky few. Having climbed photographed and studied more of the continent - spanning Transantarctic Mountains than any other person on Earth this geologist writer and photographer is uniquely suited to share these alien sights. With stories of Stump's forty years of journeys and science Otherworldly Antarctica contains 130 original color photographs complemented by watercolors and sketches by artist Marlene Hill Donnelly. Over three chapters on the ice the rock and the wind we meet snowy paths first followed during Antarctica's Heroic Age climb the central spire of the Organ Pipe Peaks peer into the crater of the volcanic Mount Erebus and traverse Liv Glacier on snowmobile while avoiding fatal falls into the blue interiors of hidden crevasses. Along the way we see the beauty of granite marble and ice - cored moraines meltwater ponds lenticular clouds icebergs and glaciers. Many of Stump's breathtaking images are aerial shots taken from the planes and helicopters that brought him to the interior. More were shot from vantages gained by climbing the mountains he studied. Some were taken from the summits of peaks. Many are of places no one had set foot before or has since. All seem both permanent and precarious connecting this otherworld to our fragile own.
Title: Otherworldly Antarctica Ice Rock And Wind At The Polar Extreme
Author(s): Stump Edmund
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226829906
Pages: 168 Pages, 144 Color Plates
Publication Date: 4/29/2024
Category: Geology & The Lithosphere