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 ...

In 1985, Neil Armstrong and Sir Edmund Hillary flew together to the geographic North Pole. Forty years later, the sons of the great two explorers duplicated the feat, but by ship this time. ByJim ...