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

For one man to have conquered the Northwest Passage, the North Magnetic Pole, and the South Pole is almost beyond imagination, yet Roald Amundsen accomplished all three in less than 10 years in ...

Roald Engebreth Gravning Amundsen of Norway ... led a 70-foot fishing boat through the entire length of the Northwest Passage, a treacherous ice-bound route that wound between the northern ...

In 1905, during Roald Amundsen's first transit of the Northwest Passage, two of his men set out from Gjoa Haven to explore the unmapped east coast of Victoria Island. They reached halfway up ...

Of all the brave Britishers who for 400 years had given freely of their treasure, courage, and enterprise to dauntless but unsuccessful attempts to negotiate the Northwest Passage, none was braver ...

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 ...

The 70-day, 1,400-mile expedition re-enacted Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's 1911 discovery ... for the sea to thaw enough to allow for navigation.) Amundsen specifically designed his Northwest ...

A new cruise is offering travelers a chance to follow in the wake of legendary sailors like Erik the Red, the Viking explorer known for establishing the first colony on Greenland (and giving the ...

A look at the search for the fabled Northwest passage ... British explorer Sir John Franklin and penniless Norwegian Roald Amundsen.