The team sailed on a 75-foot sail boat from Ushuaia, Argentina, to the Antarctic peninsula Photograph: Greg Von Doersten /Barcroft IndiaThe team plot their destinations during their ski and mountaineering expedition Photograph: Greg Von Doersten45/Barcroft IndiaThree skiers climb a near-vertical peak ahead of their attempt to ski down itPhotograph: Greg Von Doersten /Barcroft India
Chris Davenport leads a team of skiers up a steep peakPhotograph: Greg Von Doersten /Barcroft IndiaThe skiers used mountaineering equipment to access the slopes Photograph: Greg Von Doersten/Barcroft IndiaHurtling down a slope. The ambient temperatures fluctuated between minus 15 and plus 10 degrees celsius during the trip, while water temperatures hovered around two degrees celsius Photograph: Greg Von Doersten /Barcroft IndiaA skier descends a near-vertical slopePhotograph: Greg Von Doersten / Barcroft Ind/Greg Von Doersten/Barcroft IndiaThe team skied for 15 days of the 21-day expeditionPhotograph: Greg Von Doersten/Barcroft IndiaChris Davenport skis down a 60ft floating icebergPhotograph: Greg Von Doersten/Barcroft IndiaIcebergs can shift buoyancy and orientation so the biggest concern was that the iceberg would shift while Chris skied down it trapping him under the icePhotograph: Greg Von Doersten /Barcroft IndiaPenguins pictured in the Antarctic peninsulaPhotograph: Greg Von Doersten/Barcroft IndiaThe sun sets over the Antarctic peninsulaPhotograph: Greg Von Doersten /Barcroft India
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