#mt erebus

[illneverbeapassenger]

Erebus ice tongue ice cave, details.

Ross Island, Antarctica, November 2024.

[normalmountain]

[tealin]

It's Antarctica Day! 1 Dec 1959 Antarctica was set aside as a continent of peaceful scientific cooperation, not territorial claims or commercial exploitation. It was only 7 months after Apsley Cherry-Garrard died, but I'm certain the Antarctic Treaty would have appealed to his idealism.

[ramblebrambleamble]

Bill Manhire, 'Erebus Voices'. An Antarctic sightseeing flight crashed into Mt Erebus due to snow blindness. They couldn't tell which way was up, or see the mountain. There were no survivors. This is only the first half of the poem, because 17yroldme didn't like the second part, but the second part was the people's voices.

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_The Mountain_

I am here beside my brother Terror

I am the place of human error.

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I am beauty and cloud, and I am sorrow;

I am tears which you will weep tomorrow.

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I am the sky and the exhausting gale.

I am the place of ice. I am the debris trail.

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And I am still a hand, a fingertip, a ring.

I am what there is no forgetting.

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I am the one with truly broken heart.

I watched them fall, and freeze, and break apart.

[turnbullephemera]

A huge poster in six pieces from 1912 advertises a film by Herbert Ponting, showing the doomed Scott expedition to the South Pole. The poster artist has set the scene beneath Mt Erebus, actively erupting, for extra drama. The expedition used not only dog sleds, but horses and tractors to carry supplies. Some of the local wildlife is shown at the right.

Gaumont Co. Ltd (London) :With Captain Scott, R.N. to the South Pole filmed by Herbert G. Ponting, F.R.G.S. (Second series). Authentic pictures exhibited by arrangement with the Gaumont Film Hire Service London, holders of exclusive cinematograph rights. "Preparing for the final dash ". [1912]

Eph-H-ANTARCTICA-1912-04

[erebusvincent]

[coldjam]

don’t watch a show about an airplane crash when your mum, sister, best friend, and niece are flying home from new zealand ; 3;

[house-under-a-rock]

Mount Erebus Ice Towers, Antartica