Jun 07
Snow and icepacks at both the North and South Poles makes for a unique if not somewhat unforgivingly bleak landscape found no where else on earth. Remove the ice cap up north and all you’ll get is something that looks a lot like an ocean. Remove the ice cap down south, however, and one would …
Apr 15
In the annals of what is now called the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, there are three men who are commonly known among adventurer circles as making the greatest impact– Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who in 1911 became the first to discover the South Pole; Robert Falcon Scott, the Royal Navy officer whose team …
Sep 18
Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the only person to have traversed both polar ice caps and climbed Mount Everest and widely considered the world’s greatest living explorer, just announced the launch of his latest adventure. Just weeks after his 69th birthday in March of 2013, Mr. Fiennes and a skiing partner will attempt to cross Antarctica during …
Apr 27
Just when you thought the news about global warming couldn’t get any worse comes a disturbing new finding: Scientists have determined that Antarctica’s massive ice shelves are shrinking much faster than first thought, thanks to warm ocean currents that eat away at the ice from below. This suggests that future sea levels could rise faster …
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