Flurries-and-frost - Do You Remember Your First Snow?

“The Ascent”, photo by Mikhail Litvinsky (1970s)

writing my first kinda real academic paper about antarctica and turns out I know things but don’t know how I know them. which is not very convenient for footnotes as you may imagine. source: bro trust me half of my brain is polar exploration

Trans Antarctic Expedition Vehicle crossing an abyss in the ice, 1948

GUYS NO

Photos taken by Harald Sverdrup of the aurora borealis as viewed from ‘Maud’, 1918-1925

Arctic Silence (by Jan Erik Waider)

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The perfect gift for your budding polar explorer: Game of to the North Pole by Air Ship, new for 1897!

The game is possibly inspired by Swedish explorer Salomon Andrée's 1897 attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon (which did not go well). Presumably it was made before Andrée's grim fate was known.

Is this Greenland (because it's green), or Svalbard? Either way, the objective appears to be nestled in a verdant mountain valley. Just like the real North Pole!

kids these days just want to be on phone. NO ONE is dying at my antarctic research station