Hello good dopers,
I’ve just seen a TV news piece about the sixtieth anniversary of the first ascent of Everest, the interviewee is asked whether there are any great unclimbed mountains left, she replied: ‘East Antarctica’.
Hmm ‘Antarctica’, ‘East’ hmmmmm.
Now the most southerly point of the continent I can comprehend but east or west…
Anyone care to explain?
Peter
She probably meant the part located in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Per the wikipedia article, Flywheel is probably right.
Wiki has a separate article on East Antarctica.This is a standard way to refer to that portion of the continent.
the way** Flywheel** wrote it, it sounds like the interviewee was using the word incorrectly. But wevets’ cite show that this is, by convention, the correct usage.
There are unclimbed mountains outside Antarctica anyway. Mountaineering of high peaks is illegal in Bhutan. Gangkhar Puensum (the 40th highest mountain in the world) has never been climbed.
Outside of the Himalayas, there’s Mount Gladstone in New Guinea and Muz Tau in China that have never been climbed to their peak.