As destination and dream, the North Pole has few peers, and of those whose dreams led them there, Erling Kagge has few peers ...

Uemura traveled 600 miles over a period of 54 days. British explorers Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Charles Burton reach the North Pole and establish themselves as the first party to circle the earth ...

Kagge’s book itself is an exploration, not only of his 1990 journey to the North Pole, but of the history of humanity’s quest to stand on top of the world. Kagge’s trek north took an ...

Byrd's fascination with polar exploration had been fueled during ... He took part in several unsuccessful Navy attempts to fly to the North Pole, and in the summer of 1925 decided to embark ...

This week, polar scientist, explorer and author of “ Life Lessons From Explorers: Learn how to weather life’s storms from ...

Global warming is changing the Arctic—and explorers of the past would barely recognize its green tundra, diminished glaciers, and ice-free seas. Our final episode looks at the North Pole’s ...

polar exploration can reveal the immediacy of the world's climate change crisis. Without a significant reduction in atmospheric carbon levels, there may not be enough ice to ski to the North Pole in ...

Two years earlier Amundsen had been immersed in plans to extend his exploration of the Arctic Ocean and to drift over the North Pole, when he received news (later contested) that Robert Peary had ...

Why not fly in a hydrogen balloon to become the first to discover the North Pole, then as mysterious and unknown as Mars? For years explorers had attempted to reach the Pole overland; many died ...