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, ...

Eric Larsen had been waiting for ten days when his phone rang with bad news from Barneo Ice Camp. The veteran explorer and guide was set to lead the only American expedition to the North Pole in 2024.

The Final Frontier The late 19th century gave rise to a period known as the Heroic Age of Polar Expedition. The rest of the map had already been filled in; the Poles were the last great push any ...

A week earlier, the New York Herald had printed its own front-page headline: "The North Pole is Discovered by Dr. Frederick A. Cook." Cook, an American explorer who had seemingly returned from the ...

“The history of the many attempts to reach the North Pole,” Norwegian author and adventurer Erling Kagge writes, “is also the history of how illusions of a frozen wasteland can lure people to their ...

Where was Pole to Pole filmed? All the extreme places Will Smith travelled to in the new series - Deep within caves, high up ...

The expedition is due to finish in 2026 - despite this planned long term in the Arctic, several participants of the previous expedition have chosen to join North Pole - 42 after just a little more ...

Richard Parks, a world record setting explorer, reveals the gadgets behind the first episode of National Geographic’s Pole to ...

With all the lore and wonder surrounding the North Pole, it may seem like a place of pure legend. But this frozen edge of Earth is very real—and for the most daring travelers, it's an exhilarating ...