The Big Five
Spring 2011
Extreme adventure trips worldwide to get the adrenalin pumping. Day trip To Antarctica : for the time-poor, White Desert operates day trips to Antarctica, only a five-hour flight from Cape Town. For those who want a fuller experience, it offers a 10-day Antarctic safari, based at a solar-powered camp perched on the edge of a 200ft ice cliff. [...]

Ice, ethics and the call of the wild in Antarctica
May 4, 2007
Seeing the Big Five wonders of the Last Continent is certainly thrilling, but visiting the region poses a dilemma for travellers. It doesn’t sound like much of a holiday. Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest place on earth. [...]

Antarctica : On thin ice
May 3, 2007
HALF MOON ISLAND, Antarctica -- Iceberg Alley is an aptly named narrow channel on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula. The water is afloat with glassy splinters, hardly bigger than an ice cube, ranging up to colossal tabular icebergs, some the size of several football pitches. [...]

Antarctica : March of the tourists
May 2, 2007
DEVIL ISLAND, Antarctica -- Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest place in the world but during the high summer, it can feel decidedly mild. From the top of Devil Island, off the eastern edge of the Antarctic Peninsula, the watery sun reflects off the vast tabular icebergs drifting around the Weddell Sea. [...]