The golden September sun was wonderfully warm as I passed through the sliding glass doors at the aft of the ninth deck and emerged into a silent, mystical world. There, surrounding the ship and ...

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

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

Two different mountain climbers, two different approaches to the tallest mountain in Alaska. People present as a ...

Imagine a long, dank pre-dawn to post-dusk day of crawling up an exposed mountainside, trudging through snow and slop, and ...

These are the events and people that shaped the history of travel, from early pilgrimages and the Age of Discovery, to the ...

Several local people kept a diary of events in Basingstoke over the years, including Samuel Attwood, who wrote for more than ...

For ambitious watchmakers, winter has always been a unique canvas for projection. Whether it’s about technology (power reserve in sub-zero temperatures) or aesthetics: Here are five particularly ...

Quark Expeditions has been the leading innovator in polar exploration since 1991 as its unabashedly polar-obsessed team has focused exclusively on innovative adventures in the Arctic and Antarctic. In ...

Roald Amundsen got there first. In 1917, the United States bought 50 of the Virgin Islands in the West Indies from Denmark for $25 million. In 1920, Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, having been ...

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.