by Konrad Bartelski
Behind the Image
There is nowhere on earth like this inhospitable continent. Life down here is balanced on a razor blade. The mountains and glaciers take on Biblical proportions and the scale of the wilderness is beyond reproach. Flying 1,800 ft above the sea, I could see all around the rugged tentacles of the brutal ice stretching out beyond the distant horizons.
At this end of the world, scale takes on another dimension, as King George Island is actually as far from the South Pole as the Faroe Islands are from the North Pole.
The overwhelming and magnetic aura of Antarctica is such, that having finally made an expedition down there, my underlining desire is to find a way to get back.
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At this end of the world, scale takes on another dimension, as King George Island is actually as far from the South Pole as the Faroe Islands are from the North Pole.
The overwhelming and magnetic aura of Antarctica is such, that having finally made an expedition down there, my underlining desire is to find a way to get back.
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