For three months, from November 2007 into February 2008 we explored the Antarctic Peninsula by sea kayak, sailboat, foot and small plane. It was a great adventure and what we discovered was revealing about the planet as a whole: Nations fighting over who owns what as the Peninsula’s ice slowly disappears; annual rains threatening penguin chicks; tourist boats running aground and sinking; all set among a spectacular, one-of-a-kind corner of our planet.

Antarctica has long been a draw to adventurers, going back to the early navigators who came upon ghostly icebergs floating out of the southern reaches and wondered where they came from. It wasn’t until 1773 that Captain James Cook was the first to cross the Antarctic Circle, but he never saw the continent.
Today, as the planet warms, Antarctica is changing, and changing fast. Our two films about the seventh continent are mean to elicit both curiosity and concern. Our hope is that as we keep going back down south and returning with eyewitness accounts of the change, especially along Antarctica’s edges, it will help keep focus that needs and deserves attention.