Documents the dramatic 1897 flight of a visionary Swedish explorer who attempted to discover the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon, describing the formidable ...

So a great question or statement from Snakesl1, "The dudes that were involved in the heroic age of Arctic exploration were out of their freaking minds." So the pioneer age of polar exploration were ...

Knud Rasmussen was already one of the most skilled and knowledgeable Arctic explorers when he launched the Fifth Thule Expedition in 1921 — the most ambitious of the seven such endeavors he organized.

Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the Arctic’s most unforgiving landscapes. This small cemetery holds the graves of Royal ...

The Explorers Club was founded in New York City in 1904, in an era I like to call the heroic age of exploration. At a time when significant areas on the Earth’s surface were still terra incognita, ...

An arctic explorer is trapped in a snow drift the size of a coffin. How will he survive frostbite and make it out alive? In History's Toughest Heroes, Ray Winstone tells ten true stories of ...