Because it is there

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Kapitsa, A., Heap, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1995
• Subjects: Geology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Antarctic; Lake Vostok; Vostok Station; Antarc*; Antarctic Science
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102095000307; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102095000307

When an Englishman, George Leigh Mallory, was repeatedly asked in 1923, during a lecture tour in America, why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, he replied, simply “Because it is there”. In the course of a recent workshop on the phenomenon of Antarctic sub-glacial lakes, best exemplified by the large...