Elite mountain guiding company enjoyed great success on Antartica's Mount Vinson during this season's Antartic summer.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Steven Eichhorst, who grew up in Kelowna and went to Kelowna Christian, is spending some of his free time climbing mountains.

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 ...

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 ...