Traversing the ice-bound sea lane across the Arctic Ocean connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans had long been a dream of ...

Meanwhile, the rest of the Northwest Passage was still before us. We left our camp on August 13, 1905, and set sail through Simpson Strait. Much of this coast had been mapped by earlier explorers ...

In search of postpandemic adventure, the author sailed the icy arctic waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The writer of this terse diary entry was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer who had won renown five years earlier for being the first to sail the Arctic's fabled Northwest Passage from the ...

This fall the Northwest Passage completely opened up for the first time in recorded ... I worked with Global Warming 101, an expedition led by Arctic explorer and advocate Will Steger that documented ...

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 ...

The mystery of what happened to Franklin and all of his men has never been entirely solved, though the wrecks of both his ...

Early explorers searched for a shortcut through ... Little-known, yet he played a crucial role in the search for the Northwest Passage by imagining a world that ranged well beyond the limited ...

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 ...

The 6,736-mile journey takes 112 days, which provides plenty of time for readers to learn the story of British Arctic explorer Sir ... attempt to map the Northwest Passage from 1845-1847.