Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge set out across the North Pole in 1990 – a journey that inspired him to write a history of one ...

The North Pole, according to Erling Kagge, exists as a reductio ad absurdum. Having no longitude, it’s really no place at all. The same applies to the South Pole, of ...

Three British men are planning a record-breaking expedition to the North Pole, from where they will stream live footage of their adventure over the Internet -- the first time such a video stream has ...

After 61 days of traveling across Arctic ice on skis, Mike Horn and Borge Ousland have completed their unassisted trek to the North Pole. They're the first explorers to do so in winter, during ...

NASSAU, Bahamas – Two Bahamians are literally sitting on top of the world and they took The Bahamas’ flag with them. NASSAU, Bahamas – Two Bahamians are literally sitting on top of the world and they ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — When the morning of April 7, 1909 dawned, Matthew Henson checked the temperature outside. It was 29 below zero. Later that day, Henson and the man he worked for, Robert Peary, would ...

A century ago, an expedition to the North Pole involved dogsleds and explorers in heavy, fur-lined clothes, windburned and famished after weeks of trudging across ice floes, finally planting their ...

The North Pole, geographically speaking, is the northernmost point on Earth. It marks the intersection of the Earth’s axis and the Earth’s surface. From there, every direction you turn would be south.

In 1909, a young American, Ross Marvin, was helping Robert Peary on his last North Pole expedition. Marvin did not survive. He supposedly fell through a crack in the sea ice and drowned. Years later, ...

The first submarine to travel under the North Pole was the USS Nautilus, a nuclear-powered sub from the United States. In 1958, it made history by becoming the first vessel to reach the geographic ...