66 The Kingdom of the Moon: An Antarctic Trilogy

French alpinist Lionel Daudet began a quest in 2006, " not for higher summits, but for different ones." During three expeditions to the Great South, he and his friends sailed through icy waters and battled giant cornices to stand on top of unclimbed—and scarcely known—Antarctic peaks. In the process, they found that the best adventure stories are the ones that never end.