Peary, for his part, made another attempt to reach the North Pole in 1905-06, his sixth Arctic expedition. By then, he had come to think of the pole as his birthright. Any endeavor to reach the ...

"The expedition continued the history of drifting stations North Pole, started in 1937 by the Ivan Papan-led wintering party. The use of the unique platform made it possible to conduct the ...

There are many biographies of Peary as well as books about the North Pole expedition in parcticular. For information on the internet try: An online exhibit at the National Archives on the emergence of ...

Norwegian explorers Salomon August Andrée set off on an expedition to the north pole, the most ambitious journey of its time.

At that time, modern North Pole expeditions were in their heyday. In 1986, American Will Steger and his party made the first unsupported dogsled trip to the Pole. That same year, Jean-Louis ...

Andrée was one of the most famous Norwegian explorers of the late 1800s. In 1897, he set off on an expedition to the north pole, the most ambitious journey of its time. Unfortunately, his expedition ...

Minnesota's Ann Bancroft is a world-renowned polar explorer. She was the first woman to reach the North Pole by dog sled, and ...

Robert Falcon Scott, who died with his team after reaching the South Pole in 1912, is hailed as a hero in Britain. Australians are moved by a disastrous 19th-century south-to-north expedition that ...

A billionaire soy milk heiress is suing Prince Harry's former North Pole guide for £1m over a cancelled expedition to the Titanic on the doomed Titan submersible. Super-rich Karen Lo is ...

will set out for the North Pole expedition in a month. Last week, chief of the army staff general Upendra Dwivedi handed over the summit flag to him. "I have been trying to make it to the North ...