San Francisco-based mountaineer Satish Gogineni became the first Indian to ski solo and unsupported from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole. His journey, part of Project Spandana and dedicated to ...

Usually, a good place consisted of a uniform zone ranging several square meters and representative of the surrounding area. It also had to be free of sastrugi (small snow ridges created by the wind).

Usually, a good place consisted of a uniform zone ranging several square meters and representative of the surrounding area. It also had to be free of sastrugi (small snow ridges created by the wind).

It looks like the surface of another planet, but sastrugi is actually a wintertime phenomenon that’s quite common in the polar regions. Sastrugi is the wave-like, irregular ridges or grooves ...

He had to haul 170 kilograms of gear largely uphill and over sastrugi, wave-like ridges created by wind. “Not only am I pulling my ... sled all day, but I’m pulling it up and over thousands ...