Skiing on icebergs in Antarctica – in pictures
Daredevil Chris Davenport climbed a 60ft iceberg in the Antarctic – and then skied down it, coming perilously close to taking a dip in the icy waters below. Photographer Greg Von Doersten captured the moment from a nearby zodiac. The team also took on giant peaks and mountains in the remote area
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The team sailed on a 75-foot sail boat from Ushuaia, Argentina, to the Antarctic peninsula
Photograph: Greg Von Doersten /Barcroft India
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The team plot their destinations during their ski and mountaineering expedition
Photograph: Greg Von Doersten45/Barcroft India
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Three skiers climb a near-vertical peak ahead of their attempt to ski down it
Photograph: Greg Von Doersten /Barcroft India
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Chris Davenport leads a team of skiers up a steep peak
Photograph: Greg Von Doersten /Barcroft India
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The skiers used mountaineering equipment to access the slopes
Photograph: Greg Von Doersten/Barcroft India
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Hurtling down a slope. The ambient temperatures fluctuated between minus 15 and plus 10 degrees celsius during the trip, while water temperatures hovered around two degrees celsius
Photograph: Greg Von Doersten /Barcroft India
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A skier descends a near-vertical slope
Photograph: Greg Von Doersten / Barcroft Ind/Greg Von Doersten/Barcroft India
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The team skied for 15 days of the 21-day expedition
Photograph: Greg Von Doersten/Barcroft India
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Chris Davenport skis down a 60ft floating iceberg
Photograph: Greg Von Doersten/Barcroft India
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Icebergs can shift buoyancy and orientation so the biggest concern was that the iceberg would shift while Chris skied down it trapping him under the ice
Photograph: Greg Von Doersten /Barcroft India
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Penguins pictured in the Antarctic peninsula
Photograph: Greg Von Doersten/Barcroft India
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The sun sets over the Antarctic peninsula
Photograph: Greg Von Doersten /Barcroft India
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