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
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
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
The Secret World Beneath Antarctica’s Ice Antarctica may be the world’s most mysterious continent, a frozen world free from permanent human development or habitation. The unforgiving environment holds the world’s record low temperature of −128.6 °F(−89.2 °C) set in 1983 and is consistently the coldest, driest, and windiest area on Earth. Despite the unique attributes of the surface, scientists have increasingly been drawn to the land hiding […] Brains Andrew | August 5, 2021 0 Comments
NASA: Sizing Up a Tabular Iceberg This post first appeared on NASA Earth Observatory and was written by Kathryn Hansen In terms of size, only one iceberg can reign supreme at a time—a position recently held by Iceberg A-76 in the Weddell Sea. When the ‘berg calved from Antarctica’s Ronne Ice Shelf in May 2021, it became the largest iceberg floating anywhere in the world. Related: […] Brains SnowBrains | June 3, 2021 0 Comments
NASA: The Story Behind the New Iceberg Twice the Size of Chicago This post first appeared on NASA’s Earth Observatory Site Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf finally calved a large iceberg in February 2021, two years after rifts opened rapidly across the ice and raised concerns about the shelf’s stability. The break was first detected by GPS equipment on February 26, 2021, and then confirmed the next day with radar images from the […] Brains SnowBrains | March 4, 2021 0 Comments