The peak of Mt Vinson had
never been seen until 1957.
ANTARCTICA’S
MT VINSON
Sunnyfield’s Chief Financial Officer, Annie Doyle, will
be heading to Mt Vinson in January 2013 to conquer
the sixth in her quest to climb all seven of the
highest mountains on each continent!
Mt VINSON
THE DANGERS
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Mt Vinson is the highest mountain on the
continent of Antarctica and the sixth highest of the
Seven Summits.
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Mt Vinson, while not as technically difficult as other
mountains in the summit series, has extreme and
unpredictable weather. This, coupled with its isolation,
makes it a very dangerous climb.
Mt Vinson was the last discovered, last named and
last climbed of the Seven Summits.
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It is situated in the heart of the Ellsworth
Mountains, 700 nautical miles from the South
Pole.
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The mountain is named after Carl G Vinson, a
congressman in Georgia who was the first known
person to climb it in December 1966.
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It is the most pristine of all the Seven Summits.
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The mountain was first climbed by an American
Expedition during the summer of 1966/67 but was
not ascended a second time until 1979.
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Half the equipment is carried in rucksacks and the
other half is towed behind on a small plastic
sledge.

Annie will fly to Chile and then take a Russian
plane to ‘Blue Ice’ runway in Antarctica. A Twin
Otter then flies the team into the base camp of Mt
Vinson.
Just some of the major issues climbers faceinclude altitude
sickness, extreme cold temperatures, hurricane-force
winds, frost bite, hypothermia and avalanches.
COLD HARD FACTS

Antarctica is
actually a desert!

Antarctica is the only continent in the world with
no permanent or indigenous human inhabitants;
the standard population is 0.

Temperatures can range from -70°C in colder
months to -15°C in the warmer months.
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The lowest recorded temperature was – 89°C.
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Antarctica’s ice sheet contains 68% of the world’s
fresh water and 90% of the world’s ice!
For more information, visit www.sunnyfield.org.au or contact
BE PART OF
THE JOURNEY
Marisa Chilcott – 02 8977 8864 | 0403 456 546
ABN: 72 000 415 127 CFN: 13915
1 in every 15
climbers
don’t make it
home from an
attempt to climb
Mt Everest.
Mt EVEREST
Sunnyfield’s Chief Financial Officer, Annie Doyle, will
be heading to Mt Antarctica in May 2014 to conquer
the final in her quest to climb all seven of the
highest mountains on each continent!
COLD HARD FACTS
MT EVEREST

Mt Everest is called ‘Sagarmatha’ in Nepal,
which means ‘Goddess in the sky’.
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Avalanches cause the most injuries on Everest

Annie will burn an average of 8,000 calories
per day while she is on the mountain – that’s
the equivalent of 11 one-litre tubs of ice
cream!

Temperatures range from -32°C to -73°C.

The oldest person to climb Mt Everest was 76
years old.
THE DANGERS

Mt Everest is famous for the ‘Death Zone’, where the
altitude is so high, there is not enough oxygen to sustain
human life!
The mountain is named after Sir George
Everest, a British general of India.

You can see three countries from the Summit
– India, Nepal and Tibet.

120 bodies remain on the mountain.

The most dangerous part of the trek is
negotiating the Khumbu Ice Fall – 19 deaths.

Sir Edmund Hillary, another New Zealander
and Tenzing Norgay were the first to Summit
in 1953.

The first woman to Summit was Cathy O’Dowd
in 1996.

Annie will become the first Maori woman to have
climbed Mt Everest!

Mt Everest is the world's highest mountain at 8,848
metres above sea level.

Annie has attempted Mt Everest once before but had
to make the painful decision to turn back due to
unseasonably dangerous conditions.

It will take the team nine weeks in total to complete
the trek.
Just some of the major issues climbers must face include
altitude sickness, extreme cold temperatures, hurricaneforce winds, frost bite, hypothermia, avalanches and
shifting glaciers – to name a few!
For more information, visit www.sunnyfield.org.au or contact
BE PART OF
THE JOURNEY
Marisa Chilcott – 02 8977 8864 | 0403 456 546
ABN: 72 000 415 127 CFN: 13915