European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine mate than half of Antarctica has never been walked on Here scientists Camp in Ana of the Frozen continent s strange ice free dry volleys. World of adventure there Are still places to conquer byjoe Waschenbach National geographic it s no Everest but in the once  of Bhutan there is a Mountain that still has t been climbed. At 24.b80 Leet Bhutan s gang her Pun sum Isone of a highest in climbed peaks in the Himalayas. Other unconquered Heights await in neighbouring Tibet and Nepal. Everest was the the a pole,1" says or. Barry c. Bishop a member of the first american expedition to reach its 29,028-fool Summit in 1963. After its initial Conquest by a British group in 1953, there was no higher place to go except the Moon. There Are places deeper than mount Everest is High. Less than 1 percent of she deep sea has been  says oceanographer Robert d. Ballard. We Are about where Lewis and Clark were when they were ready to shove off up he Missouri but without Trier advantage of being Able to interview  Ballard in now developing the next generation of underwater exploration vehicles capable of being mane Vered at Depths of 20,000 feet. We know More about the  the Moon than we do about tha Ocean Depths he says. What about the land in Between allot it now has been sighted by satellite but Are there any places left unexplored on the ground there s no Nice neat laundry list of the world such As the 10 hottest places logo if you want to go som Whei e where nobody s been before says Jay headly of the explorers cub. But nearly 500 years after Columbus there Are still some places where Man has never set loot. They Are generally places where either the environment or the political climate has been too hostile or maybe they have been ignored simply because getting there first would hot have broken a record. By the second half of this Century the definition of exploration Tad changed from purely geographic inquiry to sophisticated scientific held research says. Bishop vice chairman of the National geographic society s committee for research and exploration. It s no longer enough to stick a Flag in new ground he says it is important to bring Back knowledge of the Taa Launa Fossil record and geologic history in the scientific sense the number of unexplored places could be countless. For the thrill of being the first to leave a footprint places to head for include. Antarctica certainly More than half of the continent has never been walked on says Guy Guthridge of the National science foundation s division of Polar programs. There Are millions of Square Miles of featureless ice Plain in the vast Interior where people have not been. Most of the peaks in the trans Antarctic mountains Haven t been  on the coast Tor example 10,168-loot mount Siple was first spotted from the air in 1940 and named but it was 1984 before anyone actually ascended it. The Arctic. Some mountains that appear to Rise from he sea on the East coast of Canada s Ellesmere and Baffin islands and extend 50 to 60 Miles Inland. Have not been scaled says George Van b. Cochran. Pest president of the explorers club. I be been up there 10 times he says. I have some secret areas of my own. One. On the Southeast coast of Ellesmere i be come close to climbing three times. It s next year s  also says Arctic expel l John Bockstoce. There Are bound to be unexplored places in the Arctic regions of the soviet Union. Australia. Thousands of caves the entrances to perhaps 6,000 Are known underlie Northern Queensland but Only about 400 have been mapped says brother Nicholas Sullivan a geology instructor at Manhattan College who has been exploring caves since 1949. In them he says he has found previously unknown Lossell species As Well As new living specimens among them cockroaches thai live Only underground. Immense uncharted caves Are hidden by the Jungle on he neighbouring Island of new Guinea. The greatest potential for finding undiscovered caves is in Limestone regions of the world with no surface water where people would t live says Russell Gurnee an american who develops caves Lor Parks. South America. A great Salt Leal in southwestern Bolivia contains huge expanses that have never been crossed says Loren Mclntyre a Veteran photographer of South America. So does an Ricefield on the Border Between Southern Argen Llna and Chile the Parma mountains straddling Brazil and Venezuela have been traversed at the Eastern and Western ends but Many of the peaks in Between Haven been Mclntyre says. Along the Andes in Southern Peru and Northern Chile summits not High enough to break records have not been scaled. The once inaccessible Amazon Region has had people reveling All through it but much of it still has not been studied scientifically particularly in Northern Brazil and Southern Colombia he says. It Ewh re there Mey be a sacred Mountain in Iran a stretch of desert on the arabian Peninsula or some Steppes in China thai have not been trod upon. The adventuresome May never run out of unexplored places because Over time new land continually appears on Earth. In 1963, or example the Rocky Island of Sulsey erupted from the volcanic sea Bottom of the coast of Iceland. Alter a 1971 storm in the Bay of Bengal a Muddy spit of land popped up Between India and Bangladesh. And in a few thousand years the Loithi seamount will become another hawaiian Island. Saturday May 17, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 13