Ellie is released from the hospital three months after Joel’s death and the assault on Jackson. The town council votes down ...

In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. Once thought to be ice-free, the legendary North Pole ...

The only written record ever found of the disastrous Franklin Northwest Passage expedition of ... it consists of a single sheet of paper bearing two hand-scrawled messages written 11 months ...

On the one hand it was the realization of a wish ... plan that he'd conceived when he first thought of going on the Northwest Passage, and that was he wanted to learn all he could about survival ...

When the Inuit paddled up to the Gabriell, they communicated through hand signals, which Frobisher optimistically interpreted as confirmation that he had found the Northwest Passage. He believed ...

Mark Synnott, an accomplished mountaineer and writer, decided it was a good time to refit his sailboat, the Polar Sun, and ...

When Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen traversed the Northwest Passage in a tiny wooden boat from 1903 to 1906, he likely never envisioned that a little more than a century later, a 1,725-person ...