The explorers also played team sports, such as football and hockey and went tobogganing. The expedition's junior medic claimed that the "air and exercise" were the key to sleeping well and maintaining ...

Polar explorer Ann Bancroft was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.(Photo By JOEY MCLEISTER/Star Tribune via Getty Images) Ann Bancroft, the polar explorer, has ...

It won’t take Børge Ousland and Vincent Colliard quite as long to cross the shrinking Juneau Icefield during the next few weeks as it would have when they started their quest to cross the world’s 20 ...

The story of early polar exploration is often told through a handful of famous names, yet many important expeditions have faded from broader recognition over time. These lesser-known journeys were not ...

Researchers will travel to the bottom of the North Atlantic to survey two legendary shipwrecks, once tied to a pair of iconic 19th-century polar explorers.

First close-up images of famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s last ship released - Researchers hope to produce digital ...

Romain has won the Shackleton prize for an audacious plan to spend months on a frozen sea. ‘I feel a sense of urgency to ...

For the boldest explorers, notable achievements in exploration include firsts in reaching the highest, deepest and furthest points on Earth. Locations such as the North Pole, South Pole, Mount Everest ...

Antarctica is the most inhospitable continent on earth. It’s dry, cold, and completely dark for months of the year. Edwardian explorers were some of the first to brave the Antarctic winter, developing ...