Griffin Post's team was up against the wall, with bad weather moving in after six days of searching. With an hour to go, thanks to some quick thinking by one scientist, they recovered gear left behind by Bradford Washburn in 1937.

Vikings from Greenland — the first Europeans to arrive in the Americas — lived in a village in Canada’s Newfoundland exactly 1,000 years ago, researchers say.

At fifty-five, Henry Worsley began a solitary trek that became a singular test of character. By David Grann.

The true story of one Antarctica-bound boat and several unexpected crew members. By Laurie Gwen Shapiro.

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New evidence suggests his second-in-command was to blame. By Kelsey Kennedy.

His companions died. Food was nearly gone. And Douglas Mawson still had 95 polar miles to go. By David Roberts.

Humans have long struggled to describe the grandeur and beauty of icebergs.

Using the most powerful telescope ever sent to Mars, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught a view of the Curiosity rover this month amid rocky mountainside terrain.

A primer for reconnoitering the unknown. By Robert Moor.

The Franklin expedition and all its crew disappeared in 1848. By Simon Worrall.

She and her navigator disappeared nearly 80 years ago. By Erik Shilling.

The toxic underwater lake beneath of the Gulf, four-times more salty than the surrounding water, was discovered by the E/V Nautilis expedition. By Jared Leone.

Researchers believe skeletal remains found in 1940 are “virtually identical” in size ratio to those of the long-lost aviator. By Nina Golgowski.

The bottom of the ocean is the most remote place on Earth, but that isn’t stopping us from mining it. By Brooke Jarvis.

Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first explorer to reach the South Pole, beating his British rival, Robert Falcon Scott. Amundsen, born in Borge, near Oslo, in 1872, was one of the great figures in polar exploration. In 1897, he was first mate on a Belgian expedition that was the first ever to winter in the Antarctic.

Cook was an 18th century explorer and navigator whose achievements in mapping the Pacific, New Zealand and Australia radically changed western perceptions of world geography. As one of the very few men in the 18th century navy to rise through the ranks, Cook was particularly sympathetic to the needs of ordinary sailors.

English seaman Francis Drake returns to Plymouth, England, in the Golden Hind, becoming the first British navigator to sail the earth.

The Explorer’s Club headquarters fill a five-story Jacobean townhouse on East 70th Street in Manhattan. The inside looks lifted from the opening scenes of an Indiana Jones movie: Wood panels, stuffed leopards snarling, mounted expedition flags, and photographs of triumphant explorers line the walls... By James McGirk.