Robert F. Scott led two expeditions to the South Pole; on the second attempt he and his men made the pole in the winter of 1912, but Norway’s Roald Amundsen beat them there, and the entire British mission perished on the attempt to get to safety. Now Scott’s last written letter, the 101-year-old note to [ more... ]

It was to have been an outrageously ambitious expedition by any stretch, skiing nearly 2,000 miles across the entirety of Antarctica supported by two bulldozers pulling lodging and a lab. That Sir Ranulph Fiennes, leader of The Coldest Journey expedition happens to be 68 would’ve made its accomplishment all the more epic. And now it’s [ more... ]

Reporter Paul Salopek is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who has spent most of the past two decades roaming across Africa, Asia, the Balkans, and Latin America. But he always flies in to do his reporting, and it struck him over all these decades as a journalist he’s never traveled the way the first humans [ more... ]

If you can somehow relate the details of an upcoming adventure you have planned to climate change, preservation and sustainability, you may be able to squeeze $25k out of the Explorers Club and Eddie Bauer. The duo is offering two grants for expeditions, one to students currently enrolled in school and another to anyone who [ more... ]

A man named Ray Chaplin hopes to circumnavigate the globe under human power. Instead of going along the equator and sticking to relatively consistent weather, he’ll try to cut across the globe from top to bottom going through the North and South Poles. He’ll paddle, bike, ski or, well, walk or swim, I guess. How [ more... ]

There exists about a 60-day window in which teams attempting to complete an overland trek from Canada to the North Pole can be out in the cold. Consistent bad weather at Resolute Bay this year shrunk that window to 51 days, and now almost all the teams that were going to attempt the trek have [ more... ]

Who among us hasn’t dreamed of quitting their job and heading for the horizon? Nicolas Rapp left the Associated Press, outfitted a Toyota Land Cruiser, and began driving east. Now he’s nearly back to where he began. His car will land on the West Coast of the U.S. in a few days, and then he’ll [ more... ]