Antarctica Mysteries
Earth's past, present and future come together here on the northern peninsula of Antarctica, the wildest, most desolate and mysterious of its continents.
Text by Luis Andres Henao and Seth Borenstein, Photos by Natacha Pisarenko
Church at world's end
Sophrony Kirilov pulls hard on the strings of the heavy Russian bells from inside the world's southernmost Eastern Orthodox church, calling to anybody who wants to pray on this remote Antarctic island.
Text by Luis Andres Henao, Photos by Natacha Pisarenko
Antarctica Tourists: Be prepared for the wild and unexpected
They trekked snow-covered mountains, gasped at seals flopping along the coastline and oohed at penguins waddling along on the ice, and even took in the spectacle of a humpback whale flapping its tail amid a sea of melting icebergs.
Text by Luis Andres Henao, Photos by Natacha Pisarenko