May 1845
Sir John Franklin - how the Manchester Guardian reported the 1845 British Naval Northwest Passage expedition and attempts to rescue the stranded crew.
30 March 1903
News from Captain Scott’s Discovery expedition to the Antarctic – expedition caught in blizzards and dense fog, Ernest Shackleton bursts a blood vessel in one of his lungs, while some men show symptoms of scurvy.
July 1911
How a heroic hunt for penguin eggs became ‘the worst journey in the world’.
14 December 1911
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first people to reach the South Pole.
1 June 1916
Sir Ernest Shackleton safe: cable from Falkland Islands - voyage in open boat.
31 March 1974
Tryggve Gran, the man who remembered Scott’s last journey - an interview with Norwegian member of Captain Scott’s Terra Nova Antarctic expedition.
17 May 2005
Norman D Vaughan, the world’s oldest Antarctic explorer and dog musher, talks about his plans to reach 100 atop the peak that bears his name.
15 June 2007
Sir Wally Herbert obituary - polar explorer, writer and artist, he was the first man to walk to the north pole. Across the Arctic Ocean - in pictures.
17 October 2009
My hero: Fridtjof Nansen. Polar ice packs in Nansen’s Arctic schooner.
28 March 2012
Captain Scott centenary: storm rages around polar explorer’s reputation. Was he a self-dramatising bungler or a dogged leader devoted to the science of Antarctic exploration?
10 November 2013
Ranulph Fiennes talks about extreme cold, losing fingers, early distractions and late fatherhood.
20 October 2014
Thaw reveals photographer’s notebook from Captain Scott’s Antarctic hut.
2 June 2018
A snapshot of Douglas Mawson’s Antarctica expedition – in pictures.
25 January 2016
Explorer Henry Worsley dies attempting unaided Antarctic crossing.
