Fifty years after their first trip to Antarctica, American photographer Morton Beebe and New Zealand author and journalist Geoffrey Lee Martin return to the continent as part of an expedition to the new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Base.

Morton Beebe (Expedition Leader)
is a photographer, a founder of Image Bank, and an early member of the Magnum photography agency. He took part in Operation Deepfreeze 3 during the winter of 1957-8 as Press Officer Lieutenant JG attached to the staff of Admiral George Dufek, Commander of the U.S. Navy’s Operation Deepfreeze 1,2, and 3.

Geoffrey Lee Martin (Expedition Leader) is the author of Hellbent for the Pole. As a journalist, he covered Edmund Hillary’s overland journey to the South Pole as part of the historic Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1957-58.

Leon Langan is aphotojournalist, explorer, and Fellow and Director of The Explorers Club. He has traveled widely for scientific measurement programs and has published in the fields of geomagnetics, environmental air quality, and geophysics for archaeology.