And they say it’s hard to conquer the browser market. Despite Microsoft’s global domination, there are some places where Firefox is a vastly dominant browser. One of them is Antarctica; according to StatCounter’s recently added feature, GlobalStats, in 2009, only one browser was us...

Filed under: Activism, Climbing, Arts and Culture, Hiking, History, Learning, Paddling, Antarctica, Camping, Ecotourism When we left Elephant Island midday yesterday we formally left Antarctica behind. I've been to Antarctica many times since 1989 and every time I leave it in my trail, whether by C-...

Director : Zack Snyder Release Date : 6 March 2009 (USA) Genre : Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller Cast : , Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter / Silk Spectre, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Edward Blake / The Comedian, Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg / Nite Owl II, Malin Akerman as Laurie Juspeczyk / Silk ...

I still wish I could bring Sadie here... Music Gets You Through ...a little more from me... A song you don't know by a band you've never heard of. I play it more often than most on my iPod. Ice Thoughts The sun is amazing sometimes. Watching the movie Sunshine with my friend Trotter the other night ...

Filed under: Activism, Climbing, Arts and Culture, Hiking, Learning, Antarctica, Ecotourism This small cove at the end of a long, glacier-packed bay off the Gerlache Strait is one my favorite corners along the Peninsula. It is surrounded by tall peaks - including, on a brilliant day like today, the ...

Antarctica Warming is Continent-Wide A new study published in Nature contradicts a story that made the rounds a few years ago and said that the the icy slabs on Antarctica have cooled slightly and possibly thickened "partly in response to the chilling seasonal effects of the ozone hole over the Sout...

It's time for a holiday in Antarctica! Yup you got it, Antarctica is warming! Well, maybe by one teeny tiny degree, but maybe not, depends which scientist you ask. That doesn't stop the MSM though, heck no, when they are on a global warming mission, nothing will stop them from using any report, no m...

Filed under: Activism, Climbing, Hiking, History, Antarctica, Ecotourism Hello ... from ... Antarctica! More specifically, it's Peninsula, which juts like a 600-mile-long finger from the seventh continent, stretching towards the southern tip of the Americas. Surrounded on either side by frozen sea i...

Physorg: It's December, and undergraduate Jenny Middleton bundles up to face the cold. While all across campus, students, and faculty don their winter gear, Middleton is not preparing for the New England winter; she is preparing for an expedition through the Earth's coldest desert: the McMurdo Dry V...

Back in the UK it's hard to believe that the last few days here have been several degrees colder than anything we experienced in Antarctica...!!  And as the year draws to a close I've been looking back over this trip of a lifetime and thought I'd share the following excerpt from my...