In the end, in the dark, it all came down to three things — experience, good judgment in the face of uncertainty, and penguin meat. It was 1903, their second winter on the White Continent. Swedish ...

The expedition will raise money for children's hospice Hope House Tŷ Gobaith and will be Mr McCorkindale's third voyage in the Arctic circle. The explorer, from Mold, Flintshire, said the Arctic ...

One hundred years on from the death of the famous polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, the UK’s new polar research ship, RRS Sir David Attenborough, will be exploring the very same region where ...

It’s a crisp -11 C in the Jukkasjärvi area of Swedish Lapland, 200 km above the Arctic Circle. I’m doing my best to remain calm as six powerful huskies charge ahead, carrying me behind them on a small ...

Woodman (McGill-Queen’s, 1991). An extensive analysis of Inuit oral testimony, often graphic. Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin’s Lost Polar Expedition, by Scott Cookman (John Wiley, ...

The expedition will raise money for children's hospice Hope House Tŷ Gobaith and will be Mr McCorkindale's third voyage in the Arctic circle. The explorer, from Mold, Flintshire, said the Arctic "does ...