Jerry Kobalenko
Jerry Kobalenko
Jerry Kobalenko is the editor of ExplorersWeb. One of Canada’s premier arctic travelers, he is the author of The Horizontal Everest and Arctic Eden, and has just finished a book about adventures in Labrador. In 2018, he was awarded the Polar Medal by the Governor General of Canada and in 2022, he received the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal for services to exploration.
Jerry Kobalenko is the editor of ExplorersWeb. One of Canada’s premier arctic travelers, he is the author of The Horizontal Everest and Arctic Eden, and has just finished a book about adventures in Labrador. In 2018, he was awarded the Polar Medal by the Governor General of Canada and in 2022, he received the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal for services to exploration.
About Last Week’s Polar Bear Attack on Baffin Island…
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Astronaut Eric Philips on the Joy of Being in Outer Space
For three and a half days earlier this month,...
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In less than a week, Norway's Borge Ousland and...
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The official "10, 9, 8..." countdown has not quite...
Rower Rescued From Typhoon Off Australia
Today, a naval warship rescued 44-year-old ocean rower Aurimas...
Manhauling 1,100Km Through Northwest Passage in the Footsteps of Amundsen’s Men
In 1905, during Roald Amundsen's first transit of the...
Murder Near the North Pole, Part IV: The Death of Charles Francis Hall
So far, the three High Arctic deaths we've covered...
Murder Near the North Pole, Part III: The Death of Peeawahto
In 1914, explorer Fitzhugh Green shot and killed his...
Murder Near the North Pole, Part II: Death on an Ice Island
In 1970, the world’s northernmost murder took place on...
Murder Near the North Pole: The Death of Ross Marvin
In 1909, a young American, Ross Marvin, was helping...
Top 10 Expeditions of 2024, #6: 3,800Km Quebec-Labrador Journey
A lot of contemporary adventure is long on athletics...
ExplorersWeb Reporter Named Among 50 Most Influential Mountain People of 2024
The Italian mountain site montagna.tv has listed ExplorersWeb's Angela...
From Arctic Influencer to Fugitive: The Strange Story of Henry Howgate
Henry Howgate was not himself an arctic explorer, but...
Australia’s Lone Emperor Penguin Released into the Southern Ocean
An emperor penguin that swam 3,500km from Antarctica to...
Bear That Broke Into Luxury Cars Was Actually an Insurance Scammer in a Bear Costume, Investigators Say
Food-habituated bears sometimes break into backcountry cabins and cars...
Greenland Hunters Bred Sled Dogs With Wolves for Strength
For centuries, when the Inuit hunters of North West...
‘Red Sprites’ Wins Weather Photographer of the Year Contest
The Royal Meteorological Society has announced the winners of...
International Snow Leopard Day Celebrates the Elusive Ghost Cat
For the eleventh year, October 23 marks International Snow...
Mosquitoes and Black Flies: How They Find You, How to Keep Them Away, And More
"A cloud of cumbrous gnats do him molest,
All striving...
How Tyler Andrews Smashed the FKT on Manaslu
Picture this: You’re running in the mountains alone with...
Video: Lightning Strike Blasts Eagle Nest; Eagle Survives
On August 6, a bald eagle near Boulder, Colorado...
Sleeping Men Have Terrifying Close Call With Polar Bear
Some Inuit men were on a fall caribou hunt...
