Antarctica - ski cruise overview
10.28.09 -11.18.09
expedition team
facts and figs.
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.
Ice Axe TV, Sean Busby, Dan Starr, Josh, Rick Windfield
* 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
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