I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer ... or a sledge that would move smoothly over snow. In art, you could look at Edward Wilson's watercolour painting of ...

Various winter traditions return, plus vintage markets and clothing swaps, Black History Month pop-ups at Navy Pier and a ...

The golden September sun was wonderfully warm as I passed through the sliding glass doors at the aft of the ninth deck and ...

aboard the state-of-the-art, 265-passenger expedition vessel MS Roald Amundsen. From £8,227, including flights. If the idea of other people on both big- and small-ship cruising fills you with ...

Credit: Heidi Peters/Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Amundsen (Roald) Park, 6200 W ... Derek Moore leads an MLK Day art activity at the Chicago Children’s Museum. Credit: Provided/Chicago ...

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.

It was the height of exploration fever. Six years later Roald Amundsen would become the first man to reach the South Pole. But it would be more than a decade and several attempts after that before ...

Two months earlier, his Terra Nova expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover that a rival Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen had beaten them to the landmark by 34 days. In appalling ...