'Australian climber and polar skier, Damien Gildea has published a new book on Antarctic mountaineering this week.'

Mountaineering in Antarctica - Climbing in the Frozen South....

Damien's book is the product of many years of personal climbing and exploration on the continent and the result of endless research and conversations with experienced Antarctic climbers. This appealing coffee table style book mixes high quality, but previously unpublished photography, with mountaineering history, exploration, geology, glacialology and gives some practical information for visitors. There are some of my own photos published in the book and some first and second ascent details from an Ellsworth Mountaineering trip I guided last season for ALE.

I will be working for ALE again this season from their new base camp (Union Glacier) in the Ellsworth Mountains as well as on Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica and therefore one of the continental '7 Summits'.

Click the link to read an interview with Damien and buy the new book, Mountaineering in Antarctica

Check out the High Mountain Guides Antarctica page for a wealth of photos, reports, kit lists and general information from the South Pole, through the Ellsworth's to the Antarctic Peninsula, 'way up North'!:

Antarctica

Antarctica. The very word conjures up visions of vast polar ice sheets, covered in snow and swept by blizzards. Of alpine mountains so inaccessible that nearly all of them are unclimbed. When we think of Anta... more>