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Victoria Land, Antarctica. each ~1500'

North head of the David Glacier


Frontier Mountain, northwest spur


and many more...

Mt Kyffen (i think), central Transantarctic Mountain Range foothills

Maybe you should have contacted the locals before blasting these out!

mfw you burn my antarctic cliff

dude! lets totally dayblaze that shit. and leave beer cans in the parking lot. maybe even tag it with a poo sock...

Merry Christmas!!

Here's the first cliff again, seen from the other side (credit: Chris Larsen/NASA)

 

Those are the Drygalski Mountains, in Queen Maud Land. They've already been opened! Ulvetanna on the left, and Holtanna distant right.

Click the first image under "Photos and Topos" for some clearer labels.

And another view.

They were base jumped in 2009 by a European team, who claimed the first jump in Antarctica, although Steve Mulholland (RIP- 1997 South Pole mishap) has been credited by some sources with that honor--probably in the 1990s--can anyone here corroborate?

Ulvetanna was also jumped in 2010 by Valery Rozov (BFL#330 RIP)

You can access them from South Africa via Russia's Novolazarevskaya Station (hop on an IL-76 to the blue ice runway, then take a DC-3 or Twin Otter the last 100 miles)

Yes, I know... Antarctica has been on my list for a while so I've been keeping track.
Would be nice to get that elusive 7th continent since I already have the other 6!
Are you planning a trip?

Steve Mulholland worked in McMurdo Station periodically from what I remember and made a slider down jump near there. I think DeathRay can verify.

Always ;)

Also, 460 mentioned in this post about another jump in the 1980s by Will Ox. Though, a "600 foot ice shelf" can't be the whole story, because a sheer ice edge that tall would collapse under its own weight. I'm really curious to learn more details.