Nine months after opening up registration for our very first group trip, and five days into the actual adventure, it finally happened: we stepped foot on our seventh continent.

Seven months ago, we pulled a pretty wild move: we invited the entire world to join us on an expedition to our 30th country and our seventh continent—Antarctica. Twenty brave souls signed up for what we pitched as the trip of a lifetime. No pressure, right?

Fast-forward through a blur of planning, paperwork, and parkas, and boom—we're here. In this post, we’re bringing you along for the first leg of our icy adventure: from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia to boarding the luxury expedition ship of dreams, the Seabourn Venture.