IV · Antarctica · EYOS Expeditions
Legend · HAST in Antarctica
2020
King George Island, Antarctica · 62.20° S, 58.96° W
Aboard Legend in Antarctica: the first permitted heli-assisted ski touring from a yacht. That was the beginning of my EYOS Antarctica career.
Highlights
- 01Antarctic Peninsula · January 2020
4 to 15 January 2020.
We flew to King George Island to join Legend, then went south along the Peninsula.
Enterprise Island, Rongé Island, Hovgaard Island.
Twelve days on the Peninsula, the helicopter waiting on deck.
In Antarctica it is not heli-skiing.
The helicopter only lifts you to the top; every line down is toured, roped and guided across the glacier.
Helicopters lifted us onto the peaks.
Roped glacier tours, ski descents back to the water, and back aboard Legend.
From here the partnership ran on to Greenland, French Polynesia, Monaco and Vanuatu.
Aboard
M/Y Legend
Expedition yacht
Supported by
Operator
Stein Retzlaff · Skier · Cameraman
Credits and sources
From Stein's camera original, IMG_7638.MOV (2020-06-05)