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.

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.

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.

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.

Ashley Shelby's debut novel — set among an appealing mix of nerds and oddballs at Antarctica's Amundsen-Scott research station — is a refreshing diversion from summer's heat.

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 ...

A former GB para-athlete who is skiing solo and unsupported to the South Pole says he is more than halfway into his expedition. Jonny Huntington, 38, from Kingsbridge, south Devon, has faced ...

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 ...

Expedition group on North to South Pole road trip stops in Detroit. ... AT35 Ford Expedition and AT44 6x6 F350, with various modifications to ensure they can last the journey.

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.