Sail to the North Pole in style aboard Le Commandant Charcot, currently the world’s only passenger vessel able to reach the ...

Tourism in the polar regions is nothing new. It’s been available for decades. Historically polar travel, both in the Arctic and in Antarctica, was by cruise ships that sailed along the periphery of ...

Boulder explorer Eric Larsen says there were times during his recent expedition to the North Pole when he thought he might not make it. There were lots of setbacks. At one point, Larsen and his ...

Just because you can't take the fictional Polar Express doesn't mean you can't get to the North Pole in style. Luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent is launching a new expedition cruise that will ...

Even today, long after it has been reached many times, the North Pole beckons adventurers. An objective of explorers for centuries, setting foot atop our planet remains a formidable goal. And with the ...

PHOTO: Poseidon Expeditions offers three departures to the North Pole on the icebreaker 50 Years of Victory in 2016. (Courtesy of Poseidon Expeditions) Despite fears that North Pole voyages will no ...

The last expedition featured representatives of the Institute of Oceanology, the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences ST. PETERSBURG, May 22. /TASS/. Organizers of ...

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 ...

New voyagers The search for Franklin’s ships and the North Pole also caught the imaginations of several American explorers. In the 1850s American financier Henry Grinnell backed two expeditions to ...

Some people are born to be great explorers. Salomon August Andrée was not one of them. One of many explorers who attempted to claim the North Pole at the turn of the 20th century, Andrée is remembered ...