Come Ski & Snowboard Antarctica With SnowBrains in November 2022 | New Spots Just Opened Up SnowBrains’ CEO Miles Clark will be guiding two trips to Antarctica in November 2022. ***If interested in skiing/riding Antarctica in 2022, please email us: Contact@SnowBrains.com The first trip was already sold out, November 3-15, 2022, but four spots have just opened up. If you’re interested, please get in touch through the email above. The second trip, from November 24 to December […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 23, 2022 1 Comment
NASA: Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Low In February 2022, sea ice around Antarctica reached the lowest extent ever observed since the start of the satellite record in 1979. It marks the first time that the ice was observed to shrink below 2 million square kilometers. Sea ice in southern polar waters reached its lowest extent on February 25, 2022, at 1.92 million square kilometers (741,000 square […] SnowBrains | April 4, 2022 2 Comments
Antarctica Experiences Record High Temps Amid Transition to Winter Like many others this year, Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, is experiencing a heatwave. It’s entering winter with record-breaking high temps. Antarctica has already started transitioning into its coldest months and darkest months. Temperatures usually begin dropping towards the end of the Southern Summer, but the continent is breaking records this March. Known as polar nights, daylight is minimal. […] Brains Aunika Skogen | March 23, 2022 0 Comments
Famous Shipwreck Found 10,000ft Under the Antarctic Sea Antarctica’s famous shipwreck, The Endurance, was recently found in the Weddell Sea. At a depth of 10,000 feet below the surface of the polar waters, the wreck is still in pristine condition. The Endurance, guided by Captain Shackleton, sank back in 1915. Shackleton had planned to attempt the first crossing of the White Continent from the Weddell Sea via the […] Brains Aunika Skogen | March 11, 2022 0 Comments
Colorado Fourth Grader Skis Antarctica on Way Towards Breaking World Record On February 1, 2022, a fourth-grade elementary school student, Keira Lipp, climbed up and skied down two different sides of a mountain in Antarctica, putting her one continent away from breaking the world record of the youngest person to ski all seven continents. Keira and her father traveled with adventure company White Desert by plane from Cape Town, South Africa, […] SnowBrains | February 3, 2022 0 Comments
NASA: Antarctica Experiences Total Solar Eclipse On December 4, 2021, a handful of people in Antarctica were treated to clear views of a total solar eclipse, the only one to occur in 2021. A partial eclipse was visible in other parts of the Southern Hemisphere. The eclipse reached totality at 07:44 Universal Time (UTC) and lasted just under 2 minutes, darkening the Antarctic summer skies at a time when […] Brains SnowBrains | December 8, 2021 0 Comments
NASA: 2021 Antarctic Ozone Hole 13th-Largest Ever, Will Persist into November This article originally appeared on NASA.gov The 2021 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum area on Oct. 7 and ranks 13th-largest since 1979, scientists from NASA and NOAA reported today. This year’s ozone hole developed similarly to last year’s: A colder than usual Southern Hemisphere winter led to a deep and larger-than-average ozone hole that will likely persist into November or early December. “This […] Brains SnowBrains | October 27, 2021 0 Comments
Antarctica Just Had its Coldest Winter on Record While many areas of the world suffered record-breaking heatwaves, wildfires, and drought this summer, one area was at the other extreme. Antarctica just had its coldest winter on record. Related: Come Ski & Snowboard Antarctica With SnowBrains in November 2022 1/1 Extraordinary coreless winter (April – September) at South Pole Station. The average as been -61.1 °C the coldest ever […] SnowBrains | October 7, 2021 3 Comments