Colin Monteath - Erebus - portrait of an Antarctic volcano

An NZARP geology field party prepares to set off from Scott Base with motor toboggans pulling their sledges. By the late 1960s/early 1970s the 30 New Zealand huskies were increasingly being left behind, largely used only for recreation. (PHOTO: Colin Monteath)

Gareth Wood rests underneath a fumarole vent on the upper caldera of Erebus after climbing from the Footsteps of Scott base at Cape Evans in March 1985. (PHOTO: ©Roger Mear)

Colin Monteath and a Scott Base husky use the sledge as a windbreak below Hoopers Shoulder, halfway up Mount Erebus. (PHOTO: Colin Monteath)

A ‘téléphérique’ rope stretches across the Main Crater to enable a pulley system to lower a device towards the lava lake. With Jean-Louis Étienne (left), Michel Arizzi and Jean-François Collignon controlling the ropes, samples were taken of chlorine, fluorine and sulfur gas from the plume rising from the lava lake. (PHOTO: Stephane Compoint)

Harry Keys watches as team members on the lip of the Inner Crater throw ropes down the wall towards the lava lake. With swirling steam and gas filling the Inner Crater, it’s difficult to see if the ropes are long enough to reach the fumarole from which Werner Giggenbach can take his samples. (PHOTO: Colin Monteath)

Werner Giggenbach abseils over the lip of the Inner Crater to commence an 80-metre drop towards the lava lake and fumaroles to take gas samples. (PHOTO: Colin Monteath)

Erebus lava lake taken from the Main Crater floor above the Inner Crater, 1974. (PHOTO: Harry Keys)

The remains of the largest section of the DC-10 aircraft, seen here from the recovery team’s campsite. (PHOTO: Colin Monteath)

The dedication service of the crash memorial cross took place in front of Scott Base shortly after everyone had evacuated the crash site. From left: Mike Prebble, leader of Scott Base, talks to two US Navy chaplains; Garth Varcoe and Ted Robinson hold the cross; US Navy Commander Darryl Westbrook; and Bob Thomson, superintendent of DSIR Antarctic Division. (PHOTO: Colin Monteath)