HX’s Fridtjof Nansen is set to celebrate its fifth year of service for HX (formerly Hurtigruten Expeditions) in early March.

In the early hours of May 12, 1926, the navigator of the Norge cried “Here we are!” The airship had reached the North Pole.

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.

I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen ... with everything I needed for the expedition. We had problems right away.

Two different mountain climbers, two different approaches to the tallest mountain in Alaska. People present as a near-infinite combination of behavior, experience and appearance, complicated and ...

an expedition-style cruise vessel with itineraries in Antarctica and the Polar North. On the cruise, Sorby gives presentations about her journey to the South Pole. She also gives lectures about ...

The composer’s exhilarating Sinfonia antartica was met with a mixed response on premiere – and still sits oddly in his oeuvre. By Phil Hebblethwaite The most famous sentence in exploration literature ...

Ultimately, Kyllesø built her body weight up by 10% in order to be as ready as she could be before the expedition ... Pole on January 14, exactly 114 years after "Norwegian polar hero," Roald ...

Little wonder the poles can seem timeless, places of desolate beauty – tundra and rock in the north, and wind and ice in the ...

"The current behavior of magnetic north is something that we have never observed before." For decades, scientists have been tracking the shift in Earth's magnetic north pole away from Canada and ...