{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Polar Mountaineering Expeditions - Part 3: Venturing into the heart of the Antarctic peaks","description":"The aircraft thunders overhead, delivering men and equipment to a remote blue-ice airstrip. It sets down with a thump, the smell of avgas hanging in the thin cold.\r\n\r\nAs the engines die, the prop wash sends a spray of powder glittering in the air. From these improvised runways, small mounting parties disperse toward a range of granite and ice that rise from the flat white like a fortress.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://theexplorationarchive.com/exploration/polar-mountaineering-expeditions","author_name":"The Archive Network"}