As participants in Operation Deep Freeze, their mission was to build and expand scientific bases located on the frozen continent.

That idea landed in Iella's gut and sat there like one of Hoth's frozen continents.

Most of the scientists and others working on the frozen continent also feel deep concern for its vulnerability.

It's a great way to experience the frozen continent without any risk of frostbite.

A century later, the Antarctic summer of 2011-12 will be a bumper one for visits to the frozen continent.

But even before they set one foot on the great frozen continent, the adventurers have already scaled heights no explorer has reached before.

If he started a feud for a lousy frozen continent, what will he do for a whole planet?

Then, with the swiftness of a meteor, he resumed his fall toward the frozen continent.

If no longer into darkest Africa or the frozen continent, then wherever decent challenges can still be found.

And a major step in determining that figure is calculating how much snow accumulates each year on the frozen continent.