Antarctica fantasy lines

Mind surfing mountains has always been a favorite past time for me.  Just seeing unique terrain inspires me and fills me with a lot of joy.  Antarctica is called the white continent.  They should add steep to it.  I have never seen nor ridden so much steep terrain in my life.  The mountains were so densely stacked with the wildest terrain I have ever seen that it made sleeping hard.  Most of my time on the boat was spent circling the upper deck with binoculars drooling over fantasy lines. Here is a few that had me spinning.

**This was the first mountain we saw after 62 hours of open ocean.  I was trying to get the boat to stop so we could ride these spines.**

**This is as close as I got to this bowl of spines.  My best guess on size has this thing weighing in close to 3000 feet in vertical drop.**

**Chamonix breeds with Alaska and has a kid in Antarctica.  I took this pic from the top of a line that was about 1800 vertical feet and mid 50 degrees.  This mutant of a face was towering in the back of us making what we rode look like a pimple.**

**Xavier and I rode the chute in the middle of the face.  The snow was great allowing us for a rare opportunity to ride a line with out axes.  This was the only slope we tested the the pitch of.  It was measured 52 degrees.**

**This was taken from the bottom of the above face waiting for a pick up to go back to the boat that was 4 miles away.  The next day we rode a chute that ended right at the pointy rock.**

**I took this photo at 11 at night.**

**My dinner came to an abrupt end when we hit this channel and started passing the most radical faces I have ever seen.**

**The coulior in the middle of the face may be the steepest coulior in the world? It is just across the channel from the spine wall above and probably has close to a 3000 vertical foot drop.**

**The captain of this sail boat has over 700 descents in Antarctica.**

**This may be the most impressive mountain scapes I have ever seen.  Mt Francois clocks in at 9600ft and may be one of the most sustained descents in the world.  Our expedition leader Doug Stoup and one of the guides on the trip, Andrew Mclean spent 3 weeks in the rain trying to ski and climb it and never saw the peak.**

**This sits right across from Francois.  I am guessing it is bigger then Jackson(4139ft) in Vertical drop and 50 to 60 degrees.  I think it is the cleanest, tallest and steepest line I have ever seen.**

**Token Penguin Shot.**

Big thanks to Ice Axe Expeditions for the trip of a lifetime.