Edmund Stump

Ed Stump is a retired professor of exploration at Arizona State University where he taught geology for 37 years. In a research career funded by the National Science Foundation, spanning 40 years and 13 Antarctic field seasons, he explored, mapped and sampled rocks throughout the 1,500-mile length of the Transantarctic Mountains, the most remote range of mountains on the planet. He also collected samples from the Vinson Massif, the highest summit on the continent, toward determining its uplift history. Stump is the author of The Roof at the Bottom of the World: Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains and Otherworldly Antarctica: Ice, Rock and Wind at the Polar Extreme.