Quark Expeditions' 2026-27 Antarctic season includes 43 departures with 13 itineraries, the new ship World Voyager, a new ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

Lisa Werner, a music teacher at St. Bruno Parish School in Dousman, traveled last year to Antarctica thanks to a teaching ...

Ice-rated expedition ships are becoming a familiar sight in a less rugged and more well-trodden part of the world: the Mediterranean. Discover if you should book this type of ship for a less ...

Mount Vinson, Antarctica Climbers enjoy great success on Mount Vinson this season. The Antarctic summer runs from November ...

Many of the most famous expeditions, such as Shackleton ... There are a number of great adventure-based books about Antarctica, which reveal what life was like for Antarctic explorers.

Women comprise 55 percent of the travelers who book with AdventureSmith Explorations and a recent report by the Adventure ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...