Union Glacier

Union Glacier is the seasonal tent camp in the Ellsworth Mountains that serves as the base for travel into the deep interior of Antarctica, reached by jet from Punta Arenas onto a runway of blue glacier ice. From here small planes fly on to the South Pole, to the emperor penguin colony at Gould Bay and to Vinson Massif, the highest mountain of the continent, where climbers spend two weeks on expedition. Guests who stay in camp ski, climb nearby peaks and walk out onto the ice. The camp stands only for the few weeks of the southern summer.