Mt. Vinson and five other nearby mountains are collectively called Vinson Massif. In January 1967, a climbing team led by Nicholas Clinch from the American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition ...

The Massif overlooks the Ronne Ice Shelf near ... adventure as Madison Mountaineering Back on Antarctic Ice to Climb Mount Vinson.

“A U.S. climbing party planted the flags of twelve nations on the summit of Vinson Massif, Antarctica’s highest mountain, on Dec. 21, 1966.” Complete Isolation. The logistics alone made it ...

But our schedule at Mount Blanc precluded us from going to the summit, so we helicoptered in to glaciers high on the massif to camp ... more interested in my climb of Vinson than in what I knew ...

Vinson Massif was an arduous and challenging journey, beginning with a flight more than halfway across the world into the remote Antarctic wilderness, followed by a relentless climb through ...

A LIMERICK man who set himself the task of taking on the Seven Summits challenge has completed six of the toughest climbs in ...

Kaamya Karthikeyan poses for a picture with the national flag at Vinson Massif as she scripted history ... and culminating the current climb in Antarctica. Also read: 5k students selected for ...

This team, attempting to climb the highest peak on the icy continent ... Range in the Ellsworth Mountains form the Mount Vinson Massif. The Massif overlooks the Ronne Ice Shelf near the base ...

Vinson Massif in Antarctica ... this highly challenging and my final milestone of the Seven Summits. With this climb, I've become the youngest female mountaineer in the world to achieve the ...