Antarctica - the end of the earth overview

A land that is intriging, remote, hostile, and breathtaking. A place that is wild, untamed, and unforgiving.

* The Antarctic Peninsula is highly mountainous with peaks rising to approximately 2,800 metres (9,186 feet).

* Peninsula experiences some of the continent's strongest winds and fiercest storms.

* Wildlife is more prevalent on the Peninsula than any other region of the continent.

* Antarctic temperatures can reach to below minus 80°C

* Winds can reach over 300 kilometres an hour.

* 99 percent of the Antarctic surface is covered by an ice sheet averaging more than two kilometres in thickness.

* Antarctica contains 75% of the earth's fresh water

* Despite all the ice, Antarctica is the world's driest desert, receiving less than 50 millimetres of precipitation a year.

* Contains a wide variety of penguins, albatross, whales, and seals.

Sean Busby, Mike Libecki, Stan Picther,Rick Angell

Rough seas, crevasses, ice and glacier mountaineering, avalanches.

Additionally, Sean will manage a chronic disease in a remote and harsh environment.

* Demonstrate anything is possible with diabetes even at the end of the Earth for USA National Diabetes Month and International Diabetes Day

* Climb and snowboard unnamed/unclimbed peaks

* Snowboard along Antarctica Peninsula and Antarctica

* Antarctic mountaineering

* Test human physical endurance

* Manage blood glucose levels and diabetes in extreme environment

 * Promote diabetes awareness and management of the disease

* Health promotion and education