Some Antarctic speed records are "the least slow in a limited pool" of skiers, but beating Christian Eide's 2011 time brought ...

the first man to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911, and a hero of the age of Antarctic exploration. Before his death in 1928, Amundsen was the first man to travel the Northwest Passage by ship ...

Shackleton's distance records were later broken by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who reached the South Pole in 1911. Regardless, Shackleton's accomplishments on the Nimrod Expedition were ...

Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first explorer to reach the South Pole, beating his British rival, Robert Falcon Scott.

His actions, however, earned him widespread support across the Arab world, with many hailing him as a hero. Source: Wikipedia Roald Amundsen's historic expedition to the South Pole was a monumental ...

North is north, right? Well, yes and no. There is more than one north pole (and for that matter more than one south pole). As ...

Having long dreamed of Antarctic expeditions, writer and adventurer Blair Braverman finally makes it to the White ...

The team of 10 set off on 25 November and will ski more than 900km across the polar plateau to the South Pole, carrying all their supplies for up to 55 days. The Inspire 22 Antarctic research ...

Our obsession with the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton is emblematic of a problematic tendency: that of celebrating ...

Cook next proceeded along an easterly course, then turned abruptly south ... by Amundsen. Recently Sir Ernest Shackleton has made an appeal on behalf of an Australasian antarctic expedition ...