I create paintings for the Air Force National Archives, and have had the pleasure of flying all over the world with the Air Force...doing research for my paintings. In 1994, I was able to go to McMurdo Station in Antarctica...and it was an amazing experience.
Here is the painting I did from that trip.
In the distance, you can see what looks like a large, white mountain...but that is actually Mt. Erebus...an active volcano that has been covered with snow and ice for so long, it appears blue...and it has steam venting from the top all the time.
We landed on a frozen body of water, called the Ross Sea...and being in an 800,000lb. cargo jet, I was a bit nervous...but I did three flights down there and am still here today to talk about it.
I got to thinking during the long flight home...what would happen if that or one of the other volcanoes down there blew...and the story for Frozen was born.
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