ABOUT: Being at the Geographic North Pole gives you the feeling of standing on top of a living, breathing planet. When darkness falls, one has the sensation of being on a planet hovering in the vastness of empty black space; something which escapes most of us, most of the time. Nothing lives on the Arctic Ocean – polar bears walk across it during some of the colder months, but it is uninhabitable. Meanwhile, at the Earth’s equator, a mere 6,220 miles away, life is teeming and on average 76oC warmer.
In cosmic terms, the distance between the North Pole and the equator is zero, a good reminder of how delicate the boundary is between life and death on Earth.
On 17 March 2018, Arctic Sea ice reached its maximum extent for the year – at 14.48 million square kilometres it was the second-lowest in the 39-year record. This year’s ice extent is 1.22 million square kilometres below the 1981-2010 average. The sea ice is melting at a rate far faster than scientists thought possible. It’s a well-documented theory that the Arctic Ocean will be ‘ice-free’ by the summer of 2030, with no ice at all by 2090. What will happen to our global weather then? Nobody knows. Whatever happens, it will be felt by every single human on the planet.
CAUSE: 50% of the profit from this picture will go towards The Last Ice Sentinel. The Last Ice Sentinel is a legacy project to locate and photograph the last fragments of the rarest ice on earth.
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ABOUT: Living in our self-generated Anthropocene era, surrounded every hour by overwhelming distractions, we are dangerously close to being anaesthetised from the natural world by technology. With planned expeditions to Mars only five years away, it’s hard to imagine that there are still unseen, untrodden and unexplored mountain ranges, right on our doorstep. On Ellesmere Island, the Earth is decorated with hundreds of unclimbed mountains. This one has likely never been photographed, and to this day remains unclimbed. I have taken the flight from Cornwallis Island to the most northern point in Canada several times over the last 19 years and never seen the same mountain twice.
CAUSE: 50% of the profit from this picture will go towards The Last Ice Sentinel. The Last Ice Sentinel is a legacy project to locate and photograph the last fragments of the rarest ice on earth.
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ABOUT: Captain Scott arrived at the coast of Antarctica a little over 100 years ago after months of sailing in his wooden ship, The Terra Nova. Today, travelling into the interior of Antarctica is a little easier thanks to this plane. Looking more like a spaceship than an aircraft, the Ilyushin 76, a symbol of Russian muscle, is the most charismatic plane I’ve ever set eyes on; strong enough to fly to Antarctica and back carrying 195,000kg without refuelling. On this day it would be carrying 80kg of me, a few empty fuel drums, a ham sandwich and a bag of Antarctic trail mix, back to Punta Arenas.
CAUSE: 50% of the profit from this picture will go towards The Last Ice Sentinel. The Last Ice Sentinel is a legacy project to locate and photograph the last fragments of the rarest ice on earth.
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ABOUT: Ann Daniels fights her way across some difficult sea ice, just a few days from the North Geographic Pole. The Arctic Ocean is a sea covered with five-million square miles of floating sea ice that is constantly moving; it’s an emotional fight to gain any progressive steps in the right direction.
Ann Daniels is the first woman in history to reach the North and South Poles as part of all-women teams.
CAUSE: 50% of the profit from this picture will go towards The Last Ice Sentinel. The Last Ice Sentinel is a legacy project to locate and photograph the last fragments of the rarest ice on earth.
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ABOUT: “The greatest polar explorer of our time” – Sir Ranulph Fiennes
On 6th April 1969, Sir Wally Herbert became the first man to walk undisputed to the North Pole, 60 years after Robert Peary claimed to have made it. This North Pole visit was only a brief stopover… Wally and his team still had a long way to go. This flag was carried on his British Trans-Arctic Expedition, the first and longest crossing of the Arctic Ocean in history, from Alaska to Spitsbergen. This 6,115km route is no longer possible on foot – the ice that once reached land at both ends is now hundreds of miles away from the shore.
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ABOUT: The pilot and co- pilot brush snow off the aircraft in preparation for a flight to the edge of the continent. The flight was to take Ben Saunders to the start point of his Trans Antarctic Crossing. Perhaps best described as a flying Land Rover the Twin Otter was designed as a short take-off and landing aircraft and has been used all over the world in the sub-zero temperatures of both Antarctica, and the Canadian high Arctic, the hottest deserts of North Africa, the mountainous regions of the Himalayas, and the open water of the Indian Ocean archipelagos.
CAUSE: 50% of the profit from this picture will go towards The Last Ice Sentinel. The Last Ice Sentinel is a legacy project to locate and photograph the last fragments of the rarest ice on earth.
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ABOUT: “Hello Bunny,” said Edmund Hillary, greeting Vivian Fuchs at the South Pole in 1958. “Damn glad to see you Ed,” replied his fellow adventurer. This gruff, manly exchange, evoking the heroic era of ‘Dr-Livingstone-I-presume’ exploration.
Fuchs is best known as the leader of the Commonwealth Trans- Antarctic Expedition, a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that accomplished the first ever overland crossing of Antarctica. Fuchs led the expedition as founder and first Director of the British Antarctic Survey, a position he held until 1973.
The party departed Shackleton Base on 24th November 1957 and reached Scott Base 100 days later, having travelled 2,158 miles. It was on this expedition that scientists established the thickness of ice at the South Pole and the existence of a land mass beneath. Fuchs is one of the very few explorers to be awarded a Special Gold Medal by the Royal Geographical Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974 and was President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1982 to 1984.
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ABOUT: The Zaalayskiy Khrebet is a mountain range that forms the natural border between China, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. In 1999, the region was first opened up to non-Kyrgyz Nationals and I was part of the first expedition permitted to record this remote corner of the former Soviet Union. Our team was made up of some highly-experienced climbers, a writer, a doctor, a cartographer, and an anthropologist.
Exploration in its purest form is rarely felt, but we experienced it high on a ridge in the Zaalayskiy Khrebet Range. The mountain had no name. There was no map. All we knew was that to the right of us was China, to the left was Kyrgyzstan, and that the footprints we were making were the first in history. Something profound was sprinting through our veins as we made our way to the summit; encountering the unknown so far from home and without a safety net is, to me, the essence of pure adventure
CAUSE: 50% of the profit from this picture will go towards The Last Ice Sentinel. The Last Ice Sentinel is a legacy project to locate and photograph the last fragments of the rarest ice on earth.
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ABOUT: “I am just going outside and may be some time”. These were the last words of explorer Captain Lawrence Edward Grace “Titus” Oates as he left the tent on his 32nd birthday, 17th March 1912, leaving his three companions (Captain Scott, Dr Edward Wilson and Lieutenant Bowers). Oates left as his badly frostbitten feet were slowing the team down and he thought by sacrificing himself his team would be able to move faster and reach the next food depot. Scott wrote in his diary: “We knew that poor Oates was walking to his death, but though we tried to dissuade him, we knew it was the act of a brave man and an English gentleman”. This image is inspired by the original painting by JC Dollman (1913).
CAUSE: 50% of the profit from this picture will go towards The Last Ice Sentinel. The Last Ice Sentinel is a legacy project to locate and photograph the last fragments of the rarest ice on earth.
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ABOUT: While on an expedition for National Geographic Pristine Seas we came across an uncharted sea-mount in the Savage Islands on Macronesia – about 300 miles west of Western Sahara, Africa. Once, every few minutes a steep and the powerful wave would form out of no-where as if it were a monster fishing from the deep
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