I am fascinated by the strategies with which historic and modern polar explorers have approached seemingly insurmountable challenges. I greatly admire their unflinching optimism and discipline.

Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...

Wild was one of the most seasoned polar explorers and the only one to have served on five expeditions to the Antarctic over a period of twenty years. He accompanied Shackleton on both of his ...

Indigenous peoples of the Arctic traditionally use polar bear fur for its ice-resistant properties, but the science behind ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Polar Explorer Simulator Live a few days of an "ordinary" polar explorer and overcome all the difficulties. You can play alone or as a team. The more ...

And recently, polar explorers managed to make a video with the little ones, according to the National Antarctic Science Center. Newborn penguins According to the science center, a pair of first ...

British polar explorer Felicity Aston understands that but explains: “The Arctic, in particular, is often thought of as a distant white wilderness, but we are all connected to it through the ...

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Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge writes about dangerous walking trips to North Pole, South Pole and Mount Everest in "After the North Pole." ...

If Amundsen is to be believed, the incident that inspired him to become a polar explorer and indeed to be the first man to navigate the Northwest Passage on one keel was when Nansen returned to ...