Cadillac Jack and the Whiteout
- at May 1, 2012
- by Edmund Stump
- in News
0
Gallery – Starshot Drifts
- Starshot drifts 1
- Starshot drifts 2
- Starshot drifts 3
- Starshot drifts 4
- Starshot drifts 5
- Starshot drifts 6
Antarctica in the Summer: Sunshine 24/7
- at April 1, 2012
- by Edmund Stump
- in Climbing, Field Work
0

Two-thirds of the way up Mt. Griffith and you expect me to come on down and make a radio call? No way!

It is only if you are out working at midnight that you may see the sky turn pink. Queen Maud Mountains, January, 1975.
Gallery – Random Shots, 1.0
- Random shots, 2000-01 1
- Random shots, 2000-01 2
- Random shots, 2000-01 3
- Random shots, 2000-01 4
- Rando5m shots, 2000-01
- Random shots, 2000-01 6
The Greening of McMurdo Station, Antarctica
- at March 1, 2012
- by Edmund Stump
- in News
0

With Observation Hill rising inthe background, the McMurdo dump burns at the foot of the station. The sewer pipe follows the road down to the dump.

Recycling bins are lined up adjacent to the sicence cargo yard, 2010-11. From left to right the bins are for Cardboard, Wood, Glass, Clothing, Aluminum cans, Paper towels, Plastic, Food waste, Mixed paper, and Hazaradous waste.

The recycling facility at McMurdo (indicated by the green arrow) sits in an old volcanic crater above storage yards at the upper end of McMurdo Station.

Windmills in The Gap between McMurdo Station and Scott Base are a recent addition to the power supply for the stations.
Gallery – Mount Discovery
- Mt. Discovery 1
- Mt. Discovery 2
- Mt. Discovery 3
- Mt. Discoery 4
- Mt. Discovery 5
- Mt. Discovery 6
Going Swimming in Antarctica on the Huffington Post
- at February 5, 2012
- by Edmund Stump
- in News
0
Climbing for Science in Antarctica
- at February 1, 2012
- by Edmund Stump
- in Climbing, Field Work
0

Mt. Murchison rises directly up from the Ross Sea to its twin-peaked summit at 3,385 meters. The red dots indicate collection sites where helicoppter landings were made in November, 1980.

Routes and collecting localities on the Fission Wall and in the background, the summit of Mt. Griffith.

Paul summitting Mt. Griffith. The Medina Hills play out to the north where they meet the Ross Ice Shelf. Scott Glacier appears to the right of the figure.

Routes and collecting sites on the Vinson Massif. We reached the glacier draining the face of the Vinson where the glacier leaves the image in the middle of its left side.

Original image of cloud on the western face of Sentinel Range with the summit of Mt. Shinn peaking out at the top. The Science cover reversed the image.
Gallery – Ice Puddles 3.0
- Ice puddles 3-1
- Ice puddles 3-2
- Ice puddles 3-3
- Ice puddles 3-4
- Ice puddles 3-5
- Ice puddles 3-6
Geology of the Transantarctic Mountains
- at January 1, 2012
- by Edmund Stump
- in Field Work, News
0

This photo encapsulates the geology of the Transantarctic Mountains with folded and intruded metamorphic rocks of the Ross orogenic belt capped by the Kukri erosion surface and overlain by Beacon sedimentary rocks, the thin, light-colored beds, which have been intruded by the dark layers of magma. Scale on the cliff is about 600 feet vertical.

The highest reaches of the TAM are flat-topped and blocky, owing to the nature of the horizontal bedding in the Beacon sediments. Mt. Blackburn at the back of the image is the highest summit on the east side of Scott Glacier. The prominant horizontal line below the summit is the Kukri erosion surface. Beneath that all of the rock is Ross granite.

With the exception of the thin band of Beacon sediments in the uplands at the horizon, all the outcrops in this image are Ross igneous and meatmorphic rocks.

The contacts between igneous and metamorphic rocks can be beautiful by virture of their complexity. Pegmatite Point, Duncan Mountains.

Beacon sedimentary rocks intruded by dark, igneous rocks, south end of The Cloudmaker. Piedmont glaciers puddle out across the rocky flat, merging with Beardmore Glacier at the right edge of the image.

A steam cloud rises from the summit of Mt. Erebus, the active volcano on Ross Island. Castle Rock is the prominent plug in the foreground.

At the summit of Mt. Erebus is a crater within a crater. Within the inner crater a crusted lake of lava continuously convects, releasing steam and other vapors.
Gallery – CTAM Crevasses
- Central TAM crevasses 1
- Central TAM crevasses 2
- Central TAM crevasses 3
- Central TAM crevasses 4
- Central TAM crevasses 5
- Central TAM crevasses 6