Category : Poles

Russian Woman Sets Longest Under-Ice Swim Record

Rebecca McPhee

12/01/2021

Arctic

Yekaterina Nekrasova, 40, has broken the world record for the longest under-ice swim. She set the record on -- or under -- Lake Baikal in Si...

Top Expeditions 1970-2020, #2: North Pole Round Trip

Kristine De Abreu

30/12/2020

Arctic Poles

It was a project so daunting that even Borge Ousland thought it was impossible. For decades, explorer Robert Peary was credited with reachin...

Top Expeditions 1970-2020, #4: North Pole at Night

Martin Walsh

28/12/2020

Arctic Poles

In 2006, during the long, dark arctic winter, Borge Ousland and Mike Horn set off on the most masochistic expedition imaginable. Their journ...

Virus Reaches Antarctica

Jerry Kobalenko

22/12/2020

Antarctic COVID-19

Until yesterday, Antarctica was the only continent on earth with no cases of COVID-19. No longer. Thirty-six Chileans at their country's Gen...

Robert Scott’s Scales Returned to Antarctica

Kristine De Abreu

17/12/2020

Antarctic

The Salter scales have returned to Antarctica, after years in a personal collection in Idaho. The New Zealand Subantarctic Heritage Trust br...

Surviving Extreme Winter Dangers

Martin Walsh

04/12/2020

Antarctic Arctic Survival

In winter travel, physical suffering, mental hardship, and discomfort are a constant. Danger does not need to be. While COVID has canceled t...

The Weird Natural Rock Art of Lake Baikal

Jerry Kobalenko

29/11/2020

Arctic

Poetically known as Baikal Zen, this rare effect happens when a flat rock that has fallen onto the ice catches the spring sun and melts the ...

Weekend Warm-Up: Mountain of Ice

Rebecca McPhee

28/11/2020

Adventure Films Antarctic

In January 2001, Jon Krakauer, Conrad Anker and six others set out to summit the unclimbed east face of the Vinson Massif in Antarctica. Sta...

Weekend Warm-Up: Stødig

Kristine De Abreu

14/11/2020

Adventure Travel Arctic Oceans

Living in the fast lane isn’t for everyone. This year in particular, some have voluntarily embraced an alternative lifestyle. Architects Guy...

Explorers’ Diseases

Angela Benavides

02/11/2020

Desert Mountain Poles

This year, we learned just how quickly a disease can spread across a globalized world. But centuries before the travel time between Wuhan an...

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