Portal Mountain [SEP] continent
Portal Mountain
Portal Mountain is a large mountain in Antarctica. The mountain has a broad ice-capped summit, and stands south of the Lashly Mountains, on the south side of the main stream of the Skelton Glacier where it leaves the polar plateau.
The mountain was discovered by the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE, 1956–58), who named it because of its association with The Portal.
poles, and climbing the highest mountain on every continent before that, Samra succeeded in becoming the first Egyptian to complete what is known as the Explorers Grand Slam.
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- Article in 1st News, Azerbaijan's Leading Online News Portal
- Article in Community Times magazine
- Article in AUC's Caravan newspaper
- Article in Egypt Today
- Article in the Daily Star newspaper
- Article on Explorer's Web
- Article on the Egypt Information Service Webpage
- Article in the Italian media