In 1994, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge completed the “Three Poles Challenge,” becoming the first person to reach the North Pole, South Pole and summit of Mount Everest on foot — without using dogs, ...

In 1931, legendary explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins set out to do what no one had ever dared – reach the North Pole underneath the ice in a submarine. The vessel, a heavily modified World War I relic named ...

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'.