There are some things about Antarctica that may not be apparent to a person who has only seen it in two dimensions. In addition to being the coldest and driest continent, for example, it also has the highest average elevation. Even after scaling craggy mountains and reaching Antarctica’s vast interior plateau (elevation: more than 9,000 feet), an adventurer will find that the terrain is striped with sastrugi, wind-sculpted snow ridges that can be six feet high or more. And then there are the white-outs, which Harpreet Chandi, who reached the…
