Imeon Range


Imeon Range is a mountain range occupying the interior of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Extending 30 km in southwest-northeast direction between Cape James and Cape Smith, and 6.8 km wide. Its summit Mount Foster – summit of the South Shetlands archipelago too – is a double peak, the higher south height of which was first climbed on January 30, 1996 by a New Zealand team led by Greg Landreth. Other prominent peaks include Evlogi Peak, Antim Peak, Mount Pisgah, Slaveykov Peak, Neofit Peak, Drinov Peak, Riggs Peak and Mount Christi.
The range is named after Mount Imeon, whose highlands and valleys around upper Oxus River were described as the ancient homeland of Bulgars by the seventh century Armenian geography index ‘Ashharatsuyts’ by Anania Shirakatsi.

History

The first ascent of the summit Mount Foster was made by Greg Landreth and team on 29 January 1996. Antim Peak was first ascended by the French mountaineers Mathieu Cortial, Lionel Daudet and Patrick Wagnon on 12 January 2010. Their route called Le vol du sérac followed the western spur of the peak.

Maps