PECS - Polar Expeditions Classification Scheme

Ski

© Robert Swan
On the Antarctic plateau
© Robert Swan
Rob Swan skiing towards the South Pole with parhelia behind
© Robert Swan
A member of Footsteps of Scott haul a heavy sled on the Ross Ice Shelf, 1985
© Robert Swan
Icewalk team skiing across Arctic Ocean pack ice to the North Pole. 1989
© Robert Swan
Footsteps of Scott team approaching the Beardmore Glacier. 1985
© Robert Swan
'Footsteps' expedition approaching the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station. 1986
© Lars Ebbesen
Unarmed Expeditions skiing on the Antarctic plateau. 1994
© Lars Ebbesen
Unarmed Expedition among sastrugi
© Lars Ebbesen
Unarmed Expedition cross narrow crevasse
© Lars Ebbesen
Kato takes a quick standing break
© Lars Ebbesen
Unarmed Expedition among sastrugi on the Antarctic plateau
© Lars Ebbesen
Unarmed Expedition approaching Frost Spur, Axel Heiberg Glacier, Antarctica. 1994
© Borge Ousland
Børge Ousland arrives at Scott Base after his solo unsupported snowkite crossing of Antarctica
© Eric Philips
Ben Galbraith lowering his kayak off the ice sheet after a Greenland crossing. 1995
© Borge Ousland
Mike Horn swims across an open lead during a winter start North Pole expedition. 2006
© Børge Ousland
Thomas Ulrich heaving his kayak and sled over a pressure ridge. 2006 Franz Josef Land expedition
© Børge Ousland
Børge Ousland hauling sleds up an icy slope on the South Patagonian Icecap. 2003
© Børge Ousland
Thomas Ulrich controls a sled as it is pulleyed across the Fella Reichert. SPI, 2003
© Børge Ousland
Thomas Ulrich with rafted kayaks. North Pole to Franz Josef Land. 2006
© Børge Ousland
Børge Ousland departs from Cape Arktichevsky on his solo ski crossing of the Arctic Ocean. 2001
© Borge Ousland
Mike Horn on thin ice during the crossing of the Arctic Ocean with Børge Ousland. 2019
© Eric Philips
Wade Fairley hauls his sled on the South Patagonian Icecap. 2000
© Eric Philips
Wade Fairley and Gary Kuehn in front of FitzRoy and Cerro Torre. 2000
© Eric Philips
Skier in evening light. Svalbard
© Martin Hartley
Eric Philips among pressured ice on the Arctic Ocean. North Pole towards Canada, 2014
© Martin Hartley
A skier climbs aboard a raft on the Arctic Ocean
© Martin Hartley
Eric Philips attempts to paddle across a wide lead on the Arctic Ocean
© Martin Hartley
Eric Philips pulls his sled onto an ice floe, skiing North Pole to Canada. 2014
© Martin Hartley
Eric Philips steps onto the solid pack ice of the Arctic Ocean
© Eric Philips
Martin Hartley squeezes through ice blocks on the Arctic Ocean. 2014
© Eric Philips
Team skis to the South Pole amid banded light. 2007
© Eric Philips
Sixteen year oldJade Hameister during her ski expedition to South Pole via Kansas Glacier.
© Christian Åslund
A large team skiing to the North Pole
© Børge Ousland
Mike Horn paddles packraft across a lead while towing a sled. 2020 Arctic Ocean crossing
© Eric Philips
A team waves goodbye to the Twin Otter before skking the Messner Route to South Pole. 2007
© Dixie Dansercoer
A team on a foot traverse of Lake Baikal, Russia
© Dixie Dansercoer
A team on a foot traverse of Lake Baikal, Russia
© Christoph Höbenreich
Skiing on Franz Josef Land
© Christoph Höbenreich
Skiing towards spectacular mountains in the Queen Maud Range. Antarctica
© Michael Martin
Christoph Höbenreich in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
© Thomas Ulrich
Skiing across the Greenland ice sheet
© Eric Philips
A teams resches their pickup flight on Ward Hunt Island after skiing from the North Pole
© Thomas Ulrich
Børge Ousland lowers a sled across the Fella Reichert. South Patagonian Icecap. 2003
© Robert Swan
Icewalk team skiing across Arctic Ocean pack ice to the North Pole. 1989
© Thomas Ulrich
Pulleying a sled across a river on the Greenland ice sheet
© Eric Philips
Two skiers heading to the North Pole
© Eric Philips
Plane departs after a drop off on the Ross Ice Shelf
© Eric Philips
Heath Jamieson heads to the South Pole on the Kansas Glacier
© Eric Philips
Paul Hameister skies towards Greenlands east coast after completing a ski crossing. 2017
© Thomas Ulrich
Early spring skiing to the North Pole
© Christoph Höbenreich
Camp in the Queen Maud Range. Antarctica
© Matthieu Tordeur
Matthieu Tordeur skiing solo to the South Pole from Hercules Inlet. 2018-19
© Matthieu Tordeur
Matthieu Tordeur on the Antarctic plateau
© Iain Rudkin
Anja Blacha on a training ski at Union Glacier camp. Antarctica
© Anja Blacha
Anja Blacha takes a break during her solo South Pole ski expedition
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