SEALED WITH A KISS

It’s summer in Antarctica, and instead of grey skies and snowstorms, the icy continent dazzles. For those of us who have hiked to the summit of Danco Island, a 155-metre ascent where gentoo penguins nest on rocky outcrops, the world below glitters like gemstones.

There has been no shortage of extraordinary landscapes and wildlife encounters on our cruise of the seventh continent, but this sparkling archipelago of soaring snow-covered mountains and aquamarine icebergs adrift in the open sea takes my breath away.

This remote island – deep in the southern reaches of the Errera Channel, near Neko Harbour – was.