On Nov. 29, 1864, a Colorado militia launched an unprovoked attack on an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribal members, ...

Things are heating up in the icy south, and not just because of climate change. We check in with this season's polar ...

An adventurer who is paralysed from the chest down will attempt to break a world record when he undertakes an epic expedition ...

The North Pole, according to Erling Kagge, exists as a reductio ad absurdum. Having no longitude, it’s really no place at all ...

Kaamya Karthikeyan, celebrated as the youngest female climber in the world to complete the Seven Summits, is now setting her ...

100 Years since Amundsen beat Scott to the pole. Dec. 18, 2011 — -- On December 14, 1911, a five-man Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen became the first explorers to reach the South Pole.

Relative of legendary polar explorer Ernest Shackleton fulfills family dream. Feb. 9, 2010— -- When Navy Commander Scott Shackleton stepped off a C-130 aircraft and set foot on the South Pole ...

It took millions of years of being a species before humans took the first picture of our own Earth's southernmost point. Now, after less than a century in space, we've photographed the Sun's south ...