It’s as clear as the footage from 10,000 feet below that Shackleton was a hero. But there were many figures in what’s known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. For me, the most compelling of ...

(CNN) Explorer Robert Falcon Scott died in 1912 while crossing Antarctica, but his story lives on in artifacts that continue to be discovered on the frozen continent at the bottom of the world.The ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The last letters written by Antarctic explorer Robert Scott to his wife and young son before the adventurer died on his South Pole expedition are to go on display for the first time ...

"We are weak, writing is difficult, but... I do not regret this journey," quotes Fiennes from one of the last letters of Capt. Robert Scott, who reached the South Pole in the summer of 1912 and then ...

Heroes of Antarctic exploration have played a crucial role in research that suggests the area of sea ice around Antarctica has barely changed in size in 100 years. Ice observations recorded in the ...

Aidan Dooley tells the story of the unsung Irish hero of early Antarctic exploration in this dramatic and humorous solo performance. Hear the riveting true stories of Crean’s Antarctic explorations as ...

Now, nearly a century after Scott’s death, a celebrated polar scientist is riding to his rescue. Susan Solomon, an atmospheric chemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, has analyzed ...