As Erling Kagge relates in his thrilling book, The North Pole, the world’s northernmost point has been a lifelong and nearly ...

If you're flexible enough to travel on a one-way cruise – and have extra time to explore far-flung locales along the way – ...

A small casket, said to be a Barniz de Paso work, a largely forgotten form of varnishing, was found at the writer's house in ...

He presents the Arctic and Antarctic together rather than as opposites, and the book oscillates between them ... He is sympathetic towards Captain Scott, and his “failed” expedition to the South Pole.

Charles Francis Hall genuinely loved the north but couldn't inspire loyalty in his men. Did one of them kill him? If so, was ...

The book was illustrated with photographs from ... Robert Falcon Scott and his men had built it in 1911, on their fateful South Pole expedition. Ice crept over the timbered walls and glazed ...

Cambridge’s Jonny Huntingdon has just made history - becoming the first explorer with a disability to ski both solo and unsupported to the South Pole. Velvet’s Alice Ryan talks to him Skiing ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

A cycling accident might have set her back in recent years but, 18 years after reaching the world’s highest point, Hannah ...