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

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

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 ...

While many attempts had been made to reach the Arctic and Antarctic, it wasn’t until 1911 that Norwegian Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole. Americans Frederick Cook ...

Nine-year-old Vienna Chan recommends Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” for its captivating story of a poor boy who wins a tour of Willy Wonka’s magical factory and ...

‘That education gave me chance to explore stuff I wanted to do,’ says ex-GB Para-athlete who created history in Antarctica A former GB Para-athlete has claimed that Labour’s private school ...

To tie the whole thing together, Kyllesø reached the geographic South Pole on January 14, exactly 114 years after "Norwegian polar hero," Roald Amundsen became the first person to hoist the ...

The brave adventurer took the world by storm by achieving the landmark 114 years after legendary Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen first set foot on the South Pole in 1911 ... In a pre-expedition ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers Wednesday for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart ...

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 ...