The bizarre mountain region of New Swabia was discovered by the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 and features names like the Wohlthat-, Humboldt-, Conrad-, Drygalski or Filchne Mountains. Image: Christoph Höbenreich 2023 There are still many corners of the earth...
Christoph Höbenreich on December 10, 2001 on the summit of Mt. Vinson with the ski pole left behind by the second climbers in 1979. (Photo: B. Goodlad) The beginnings of mountaineering in Antarctica The first mountain tour on the white continent was undertaken in the...
The subpolar natural gem of South Georgia is home to tens of thousands of king penguins, as seen here in St. Andrews Bay off Mt. Brooker (1881 m) and the Cook Glacier in the foothills of the Allardyce Range. (Photo: Christoph Höbenreich) The subpolar island world No...
First ascent of an unnamed iceberg in Dronning Maud Land overlooking the East Antarctic South Polar Plateau. (Photo: Christoph Höbenreich) There are mountain trips that are unlike any other. They are journeys that take us to another world. In search of the most remote...
Christoph Höbenreich makes a loop from the Drygalski Mountains through the Holtedahl Mountains into the Conrad Mountains in East Antarctica with polar sled and combined polar mountaineering and skiing equipment. (Photo: Paul Koller, 2009) What are the benefits of the...
