Finding a site willing to host a memorial for the 257 victims of the Erebus plane crash has been "tricky ... over Antarctica crashed into the side of Mount Erebus killing everyone onboard.

And the legacy of the Mt Erebus disaster is still felt 40 years on. Air New Zealand had started operating scenic flights over Antarctica only two years before, and they had been a great success.

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The scene: a tent on Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island, Antarctica. The tent is a four-cornered tepee ...

Mount Erebus is the world’s southern-most active ... The extremely remote volcano is most famous for the air disaster in November 1979 when an Air New Zealand Flight 901 smashed into it.