Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of accessing mineral wealth buried in the permafrost and opening new trade routes ...

“REACHED NORTH POLE,” the American explorer Frederick Cook wired on Sept. 1, 1909, to James Gorden Bennett Jr., the Paris-based publisher of The New York Herald, which teed up Cook’s 2,000 ...

“Polar Exposure: An All-Women’s Expedition to the North Pole” By Felicity Aston; Imagine Books, 2022; 272 pages; $24.99. Even today, long after it has been reached many times, the North Pole ...

Kagge’s book itself is an exploration, not only of his 1990 journey to the North Pole, but of the history of humanity’s quest to stand on top of the world.

In a world that so often encourages women to play it safe, a young Kuwaiti woman named Yasmeen Almane dared to do the un ...

Reaching the North Pole was a fantasy of the ancients. Finding the Northwest Passage was the goal of European explorers. Traversing the Arctic Ocean has become the reality of climate change ...

The Arctic lost to time: Amazing archive photos chart a daring 19th-century attempt to reach the North Pole. The Nansen Photographs tells the story of how 12 men set off from Norway in 1893 in a ...

LONDON CALLING NORTH POLE (208 pp.)—H. J. Giskes—British Book Centre ($3.50).The decisive moment for Operation North Pole came at 2 p.m. on March 15, 1942. At that moment H. M. G. Lauwers, a ...

British physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski explains how Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen's expedition to the North Pole was 'one of the most bonkers and brilliant experiments ever devised'.

Frederick Cook and Robert Peary both claimed they discovered the North Pole. AGIP / Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection, New York On September 7, 1909, readers of the New York Times awakened ...