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{{Infobox Mountain|Name=Vinson Massif|Photo=Vinson_Massif_from_space.jpg|

     Caption=NASA image of Vinson Massif from space|jojokikii uuyoiip qwerty1

     Elevation=4,892 metres (16,050 feet)|
     elevation=4892|
     Location=Antarctica (on territory claimed by Chile) |
     Range=Sentinel Range

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• Jon Krakauer - mountaineer and author
• Dave Hahn - mountain guide with 19 ascents from the established route
• Andrew Mclean - extremejiojmoi;o;mj skier
• Dan Stone - glaciologist
• Lisel Clark - producer (who also became the first woman to make an ascent from this side)
• John Armstrong - cameraman
• Rob Raker - assistant cameraman and sound recording

The team not only made the first ascent from the east side but also performed scientific research into snow accumulation at different elevations as well as taking the first ground based GPS reading from the summit. The GPS reading gave the elevation of the highest point in Antarctica as 4,897 metres (16,077 ft), eclipsing the earlier established heights recorded in 1959 and 1979.

Another first was the successful aircraft landing of a Twin Otter on the Upper Dater Glacier on the eastern slopes of Vinson Massif.

Nova named the production "Mountain of Ice", which first aired on PBS in February 2003.

On nomination by Damien Gildea of the Omega Foundation, USGS Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN) on August 18th, 2006 approved naming the subsidiary peaklets south of Mt. Vinson for the AAME 1966/67 members Nicholas Clinch, Barry Corbet, Eiichi Fukushima, Charles Hollister, Brian Marts, Samuel Silverstein, Peter Schoening and Richard Wahlstrom. Other peaks in the Sentinel Range had previously been named for John Evans and William Long.

External links

• Vinson Massif on TierraWiki.org
• Mountain of Ice

• Mountains of Antarctica
• Seven Summits