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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Karen Kylleso accomplished the feat overnight between Monday and Tuesday, 114 years after fellow Norwegian and polar explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole.

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"I don't call it an expedition. It's panic," Hjalmar Johansen, the most experienced polar explorer of the team, told Amundsen. Bitterly resented, Johansen's damning words cost him a place on the ...

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 ...

A top female footballer and a record-breaking polar explorer are among this year's recipients of honorary awards from the University of Derby. Derbyshire-born Millie Bright, who captained England ...