Melbourne-based adventurer Liam Suckling has scaled Antarctica's tallest mountain and has captured astonishing drone footage of some never-before-seen areas of the icy continent.

The summit of Mt Vinson is almost five kilometres above sea level, and is more than twice as high as Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko. It was discovered only in 1958, five years after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay scaled Mount Everest.

Because of its sheer isolation and the difficulty of the ascent, only a small number of people have ever climbed it.

Mr Suckling's team became the first people to reach the summit of Rogers Peak, a 1.5-kilometre-high Antarctic mountain.