The Chilean base at Paradise Bay

February 1, 1994

Nearer to the mountain's walls now, I saw how the snow formed huge banks protruding far out from the mountains' actual sides. These often formed vertical cliffs thousands of feet high, with ridges and lips at the top that hung out in space and radiated with a cold blue light.

Ice wall over the base, and icebergs in the bay

This was finally Antarctica! We had at last landed on a portion of the Antarctic continent, and set foot on true Antarctic ground for the first time, joining the other brave and curious human beings who had traveled this far to walk on a new continent.

Gentoo claiming the base for their own

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