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"Explorers may have sighted Queen Maud Land's coast in 1820, but its grand mountains ... remained unknown until 1939, when Germans made aerial photos. Today the region's virgin peaks and otherworldly terrain exert a magnetic pull on the top climbers [such as this man shown skiing during a 1996 expedition to climb Rakekniven]."
—Text from "Queen Maud Land," February 1998, National Geographic magazine
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Queen Maud Land," February 1998, National Geographic magazine)
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