Like many devotees of Antarctica, I remain fascinated by these ... at the other end of Ross Island, about 65 miles away. They were going to man-haul two sledges, 130 miles round trip, through ...

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 looms over the United States' main research base in Antarctica, McMurdo Station, on Ross Island. Most of the year scientists monitor the volcano remotely, gathering data from ...