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The Roof at the Bottom of the World The Transantarctic ~ The Roof at the Bottom of the World Available from Yale University Press The Roof at the Bottom of the World Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains comprehensively documents the 1500mile length of the Transantarctic Mountains It is the first atlas of the most remote mountain range on Earth

The Roof at the Bottom of the World Discovering the ~ Edmund Stump is professor of exploration at Arizona State University He is also a geologist polar explorer mountaineer and photographer specializing in the geology of the Transantarctic Mountains He has served as principal investigator or chief scientist on many scientific field trips to Antarctica

The Roof at the Bottom of the World Discovering the ~ The Transantarctic Mountains are the most remote mountain belt on Earth an utterly pristine wilderness of ice and rock rising to majestic heights and extending for 1500 miles The Transantarctic Mountains are the most remote mountain belt on Earth

The Roof at the Bottom of the World Discovering the ~ The Roof at the Bottom of the World Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains This is really three different books inside one cover First we have a history of the discovery of the Transantarctic Mountains from the age of James Clark Ross first sightings in 1841 to the International Geophysical Year of 1957

The Roof at the Bottom of the World Discovering the ~ In The Roof at the Bottom of the World Edmund Stump is the first to show us this continentalscale mountain system in all its stunning beauty and desolation and the first to provide a comprehensive fully illustrated history of the regions discovery and exploration The author not only has conducted extensive research in the Transantarctic Mountains during his fortyyear career as a geologist but has also systematically photographed the entire region

The Roof at the Bottom of the World Discovering the ~ A fascinating portrait and history of the most obscure mountains on Earth by a modern scientistexplorer with unsurpassed knowledge of the region The Transantarctic Mountains are the most remote mountain belt on Earth an utterly pristine wilderness of ice and rock rising to majestic heights and extending for 1500 miles

The Roof at the Bottom of the World Discovering the ~ The Roof at the Bottom of the World Hardcover Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains By Edmund Stump Yale University Press 9780300171976 272pp Publication Date November 15 2011

The Roof at the Bottom of the World Discovering the ~ The title THE ROOF AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD DISCOVERING THE TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS is appropriate because it describes the exploration of a 1200milelong chain of mountains that reach to within 176 miles of the South Pole

Roof at the Bottom of the World Yale University Press ~ “Helping to shed light on the secrets of the 1500 mile long Transantarctic mountain chain is this lavishly illustrated book…The Roof at the Bottom of the World earns its place on any serious mountaineer’s bookshelf by virtue of the fact it is the only comprehensive history of the exploration of one of the most important yet mysterious mountain ranges in the world