We explore a forgotten expedition that aimed to reach the North Pole from beneath the ice. After centuries of failed surface ...

A paralysed adventurer from Shrewsbury is "gutted" after being forced to end his world record attempt in Antarctica.

In December 1911, Roald Amundsen and his crew reached the South Pole, beating his rival, Robert Falcon Scott, by 35 days.

Old maps are rife with phantom islands. Sometimes these nonexistent landmasses come about because of mistakes made by sailors or cartographers; sometimes they can be traced back to folklore or legends ...

A secret CIA mission in 1965 to spy on China resulted in a lost nuclear device on Nanda Devi. American and Indian climbers ...

There are actually two North Poles. One has been wandering over northern Canada and north of there for years. An earth ...