Expeditions • Antarctica
Antarctica
is a dream for the alpinist : hundreds of unclimbed summits and faces.
Two new peaks were climbed by Catherine Destivelle and Erik Decamp in
1996 in the Ellsworth Range. Destivelle fell and sustained a compound
fracture which involved a lengthly and difficult self rescue by them :
15 hours to the foot of the mountain. Back to the relative security of
a tent followed a two day wait in the storm, without pain killers, for
a plane to arrive and evacuate her to Punta Arenas at the southern tip
of Chili where she received fantastic treatment.