Incredible stuff here: images from some of the interior mountain ranges of Antarctica. This collection of photographs was taken by Antarctic guide and historian Damien Gildea from his adventures on the loneliest, coldest lands on Earth. Beyond the jagged, imposing appearance of the mountains themselves, it's remarkable to look out into the distance at the flat icelands off into the distance. One can only imagine how many stormy, cloudy days were endured for these sunlit photographs.

a section of vinson massif the sentinel range map produced by camilo rada and damien gildea for the omega foundation in 2006 scaledcamilo rada and rodrigo fica on the summit of mt vinson where we spent eight hours in a tent to run a gps surveying a new height ofcamp out to the west of the sentinel range with mt epperly in the background. in january 2008 we climbed a new route on the right hgildea climbing the west face of mt anderson during the first ascent of the mountain via the west face with jed brown in 2007 scalegildea on the summit ridge of mt anderson during the first ascent in 2007 scaledgildea setting up the trimble 5700 gps on the summit of mt shinn 4660m establishing it as antarcticas 3rd highest mountain declooking north past chilean alpinist maria paz ibarra climbing high on mt. gardner 4573m in the sentinel range scaled