Une forêt fossilisée vieille de 280 millions d’années vient d’être découverte en Antarctique

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ANTARCTICA, FEBRUARY 2016: The team explored the peculiar landscape by foot as well as freediving, taken in February 2016, Antarctica.

A GROUP of UK adventurers have made history as the first Brits believed to have freedived in Antarctica. Will Glendinning, 40, made the treacherous journey to the planet’s most southerly continent with friend Dave Crump and four other crew members. Freediving involves going underwater without breathing equipment and relies on the diver?s ability to hold their breath for minutes at a time. Classed as an extreme sport, it is especially dangerous in the Southern Ocean, with icebergs ?the size of small countries? threatening to collapse and crush divers beneath their weight.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY Freedive Antarctica / Barcroft Images

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