Sail to the North Pole in style aboard Le Commandant Charcot, currently the world’s only passenger vessel able to reach the ...

Just because you can't take the fictional Polar Express doesn't mean you can't get to the North Pole in style. Luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent is launching a new expedition cruise that will ...

PHOTO: Poseidon Expeditions offers three departures to the North Pole on the icebreaker 50 Years of Victory in 2016. (Courtesy of Poseidon Expeditions) Despite fears that North Pole voyages will no ...

Tourism in the polar regions is nothing new. It’s been available for decades. Historically polar travel, both in the Arctic and in Antarctica, was by cruise ships that sailed along the periphery of ...

Lonnie Dupre wasn't planning to go to the North Pole this spring. Then, about a month ago, his cell phone rang. The call came from an adventure travel agent in Chicago. A couple of serious world ...

Even today, long after it has been reached many times, the North Pole beckons adventurers. An objective of explorers for centuries, setting foot atop our planet remains a formidable goal. And with the ...

The 1896 Cabin is on the hybrid ship MS Fridtjof Nansen. It is named for Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen, the great Norwegian ...

The world's first ice-resistant platform, the North Pole, is designed for year-round expeditions in the northern latitudes of the Arctic Ocean ST. PETERSBURG, November 8. /TASS/. Participants in the ...

The last expedition featured representatives of the Institute of Oceanology, the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences ST. PETERSBURG, May 22. /TASS/. Organizers of ...

New voyagers The search for Franklin’s ships and the North Pole also caught the imaginations of several American explorers. In the 1850s American financier Henry Grinnell backed two expeditions to ...

Some people are born to be great explorers. Salomon August Andrée was not one of them. One of many explorers who attempted to ...

In 1909, a young American, Ross Marvin, was helping Robert Peary on his last North Pole expedition. Marvin did not survive. He supposedly fell through a crack in the sea ice and drowned. Years later, ...