48 days later, Chris falls over once she spots the finish line, the research station at the South Pole. The first thing they do, is call home. "We're all crying and I don't know what Keenan was doing.

Review: South Pole expedition offers enlightening adventure Traditionally, our great tales of adventurous accomplishment have involved super-sized heroes who scoff at danger and succeed at any cost.

Sir Douglas Mawson, was the first to reach the South Magnetic Pole with an epic 1,260-mile march and to scale the volcanic Mount Erebus. The expedition also supported significant scientific ...

In his book, Larson argues to the ... The SS 'Terra Nova' used by British Capt. Robert Falcon Scott on his ill-fated Antarctic expedition to the South Pole is shown, ice-bound, in February 1913.

The stunning true story of how a British expedition to the Antarctic helped defeat the Nazis has been revealed for the first time in a new book. Launched at the 1943 height of World War Two ...

On Scott’s Terra Nova expedition of 1910, he reached the South pole just weeks after Norwegian Roald Amundsen. Into her novel, Lazaridis weaves another story entirely, in the vein of strong ...

Roald Amundsen didn’t rest on his laurels after reaching the South Pole. Following his famous expedition, he also traversed the icy Northeast Passage and attempted to make history at the North Pole.

Amundsen and his team at the South Pole; Image via Wikipedia On December 14, 1911, one hundred years ago, Roald Amundsen, and a small team of four others, accomplished what no one else had ever ...

Remembering The Race To The South Pole In 1911, two groups of explorers set out to be first to reach the South Pole. One claimed victory, and the other perished on the return trip.

The first talith (praying shawl), tefilim (phylacteries), sidur (prayer book) and tsitsith (fringes worn by Jews on edge of clothes), to be taken to the South Pole was part of the baggage of ...

At first, the news of Scott’s fate overshadowed Ponting’s pictures, but after World War I the photographer published his work, to great acclaim, in a book titled The Great White South.