Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...

I am fascinated by the strategies with which historic and modern polar explorers have approached seemingly insurmountable challenges. I greatly admire their unflinching optimism and discipline.

Indigenous peoples of the Arctic traditionally use polar bear fur for its ice-resistant properties, but the science behind ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Polar Explorer Simulator Live a few days of an "ordinary" polar explorer and overcome all the difficulties. You can play alone or as a team. The more ...

And recently, polar explorers managed to make a video with the little ones, according to the National Antarctic Science Center. Newborn penguins According to the science center, a pair of first ...

TASS/. The profession of a polar explorer does not leave room for romantic moods, offering instead the stresses, dangers and endless frosts. Here is a story of a man, who has participated in 25 ...

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If Amundsen is to be believed, the incident that inspired him to become a polar explorer and indeed to be the first man to navigate the Northwest Passage on one keel was when Nansen returned to ...

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.

"I don't call it an expedition. It's panic," Hjalmar Johansen, the most experienced polar explorer of the team, told Amundsen. Bitterly resented, Johansen's damning words cost him a place on the ...