The golden September sun was wonderfully warm as I passed through the sliding glass doors at the aft of the ninth deck and emerged into a silent, mystical world. There, surrounding the ship and ...

In spring 2005 I traveled by ski and dogsled across Greenland with a team of Norwegians. The 70-day, 1,400-mile expedition re-enacted Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's 1911 discovery of the South ...

Before It’s Gone Arctic Research Expedition founder Felicity Aston and her team gather critical polar data before the sea ice ...

Why the Arctic? Well, Amundsen's feelings really expressed something that was going on in Scandinavia in general, Norway in particular ... him to become a polar explorer and indeed to be the ...

But the Arctic would eventually claim his life ... in a competition to be the first to fly over the North Pole. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first man ever to reach the South Pole ...