Editing Mount Erebus (section)

===Climbing===
{{main|Nimrod Expedition}}
Mount Erebus' summit crater rim was first achieved by members of Sir [[Ernest Shackleton]]'s party; [[Edgeworth David|Professor Edgeworth David]], [[Douglas Mawson|Sir Douglas Mawson]], [[Alistair Mackay|Dr Alister Mackay]], Alex Lagasse, [[Jameson Adams]], [[Eric Marshall|Dr Eric Marshall]] and Phillip Brocklehurst (who did not reach the summit),  on 10 March 1908. The ascent was documented in the first chapter of [[Aurora Australis (book)|Aurora Australis]], the first book to be written and published in Antarctica.<ref name="Aurora" /> Its first known solo ascent and the first winter ascent was accomplished by British mountaineer [[Roger Mear]] on 7 June 1985, a member of the "In the Footsteps of Scott" expedition.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mear |first1=Roger |last2=Swan |first2=Robert |last3=Fulcher |first3=Lindsay |title=A Walk to the Pole: To the Heart of Antarctica in the Footsteps of Scott |date=1987 |isbn=978-0-517-56611-4 |pages=95–104 |publisher=Crown |oclc=16092953 |language=English}}</ref> On 19–20 January 1991, Charles J. Blackmer, an iron-worker for many years at [[McMurdo Station]] and the [[South Pole]], accomplished a solo ascent in about 17 hours completely unsupported, by snow mobile and on foot.<ref name = "Wheeler Terra">{{cite book | title = Terra Incognita | url = https://archive.org/details/terraincognita00sara | url-access = registration | first = Sara | last = Wheeler| year = 1998 | publisher = Random House | isbn = 9780679440789 }}</ref><ref name = "Johnson Place">{{cite book | title = Big Dead Place | url = https://archive.org/details/bigdeadplaceinsi00nich | url-access = registration | first = Nicholas | last = Johnson| year = 2005 | publisher = Feral House | isbn = 9780922915996 }}</ref>

[[File:Mount Erebus craters, Ross Island, Antarctica (aerial view, 18 December 2000).jpg|Aerial view of Mount Erebus craters|thumb]]