Damien Gildea

Above, an undated photo of Damien from one of the ExplorersWeb interviews discussed below.

Damien Gildea is an Australian mountaineer, writer, and Antarctic explorer...well, read the rest of this on Wikipedia.

I won't go into his climbing exploits here, but his books include The Antarctic Mountaineering Chronology (1998) (apparently out of print, costly and with his name misspelled per Amazon) and the more recent Mountaineering in Antarctica: Climbing the Frozen South first published in 2010 (which I've started reading). He was interviewed by Explorersweb when the book came out...in two parts, here is part one, and here is part two. Alas, the interview links to the book site on those pages no longer work, so head to the Amazon page.