Sunniva Sorby, a member of the first group of women to ski to the South Pole, is now the “Godmother” of the HX Nansen, a ...

Reading up on Antarctica's natural history and golden age of exploration can make your trip more entertaining and educational ...

Karen Kylleso accomplished the feat 114 years after polar explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South ...

which culminated in the attainment of the south pole, and settled the last of the old romantic problems of exploration. The main and avowed object of Amundsen's expedition was to reach the pole ...

Late on Monday night, in the bright sunlit tundra of the South Pole, another record is broken as 21-year-old Norwegian Karen Kyllesø stepped past the line of na ...

So how to judge Scott and his expedition? As the 100th anniversary of the "Race to the South Pole" is marked this winter, it reinvigorates a long debate over Scott's judgment and preparation.

which had been hit hard in 1911 when Norwegian Roald Amundsen beat Captain Robert Scott to the South Pole. Shackleton had ...

The 38-year-old set off from Fuchs-Messner on 21 November 2024 and arrived at the South Pole on Monday. Throughout his expedition, he skied in extreme conditions, including freezing temperatures ...

and the first person to reach the South Pole on foot in two years. She narrowly missed out on the time set by Johanna Davidsson from Sweden, the fastest female to complete a solo expedition of the ...

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Discovery 1901-1904 Sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society, Scott led the British National Antarctic Expedition ... to reach the South Pole.