One of the world's leading polar explorers, Larsen has touched the South Pole and the North Pole six times each. He's also the only person to journey to both and Mount Everest in the same year. Had he ...

Polar explorer and teacher Ann Bancroft was 10 years old when she first read "Endurance," the gripping account of Ernest Shackleton and his crew, who in 1915 were trapped in the Antarctica and ...

Eric Larsen remembers March 22, 2014, as one of the hardest days of his life. Seven days earlier, he and his adventure partner, Ryan Waters, had set out from Northern Ellesmere Island bound for the ...

Arctic explorer and adventurer Mark Wood joins WIRED to answer the internet's ice cold questions about polar expeditions. How does an average person travel to the arctic? Can they? What does it take ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A bitcoin investor who bought a SpaceX flight for himself and three polar explorers blasted off Monday night on the first rocket ride to carry people over the North and South ...

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Among the items recovered from the sledges left behind by the men who attempted an overland escape from the doomed Franklin Expedition that sought the Northwest Passage were a fair number of books. It ...

We’ve all heard stories of modern day explorers and adventurers who push the limits of both their bodies and technology, still proving that one can be the first to achieve something in this world, ...

Crested Butte, Colorado — Eric Larsen lives for adventure. One of the world's leading polar explorers, Larsen has touched the South Pole and the North Pole six times each. He's also the only person to ...

Arctic explorer and adventurer Mark Wood joins WIRED to answer the internet's ice cold questions about polar expeditions. How does an average person travel to the arctic? Can they? What does it take ...