Adventure in 60 Seconds: This Week in Exploration
Text by Tetsuhiko EndoMOUNTAINS The Himalaya were bustling this week with climbers of all nationalities moving out of base camps in order to establish their high camps. On Everest, this mean crossing...
View ArticleAdventure in 60 Seconds: First Americans Complete Unsupported North Pole Ski...
Text by Tetsuhiko Endo America’s heartland is known for its farms, football, and low-key, but friendly folk. With such a humble reputation, it’s easy to forget that the Midwest has also produced some...
View ArticleInterview: John Huston, First American to Ski to North Pole Unsupported
Text by Tetsuhiko Endo At 5:30 p.m. on April 25th, after 54 days of skiing, John Huston, 32, and Tyler Fish, 34, reached the North Pole and became the first Americans in history do so unassisted and on...
View ArticleAdventure in 60 Seconds: This Week in Exploration
Text by Tetsuhiko Endo MOUNTAINS Headache, heartache, and triumph in the Himalaya this week with lots of acclimatization, bad weather, and even a couple of summits. Edurne Pasabán is sitting in camp 3...
View ArticleAdventure in 60 Seconds: This Week in Exploration
Text by Tetsuhiko Endo MOUNTAINS There was death and glory in the Himalaya this week with multiple summits and no shortage of danger for the men and women on the cusp of their summit pushes. The...
View ArticleAdventure in 60 Seconds: “First Out, Last Back” Caitlin Arctic Survey Completed
Text by Tetsuhiko Endo It wasn’t the most smoothest expedition to ever traverse the Arctic, but after 75 days at the top of the world, Pen Hadow, Anne Daniels, and Martin Hartley of the Caitlin Arctic...
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Adventure Video: Killer Whales’ Cunning Seal Hunting Technique
Text by Laura Buckley We now have 40 Wild Chronicles videos, hosted by National Geographic's own Boyd Matson, up on our site. In each episode, top explorers and field scientists traverse the globe,...
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The Amundsen Mystery Still Unsolved
The more than 80-year-old mystery of the disappearance of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his airplane remains unsolved, as New Zealand explorer Rob McCallum and his team returned from their...
View ArticleUpdate: Expedition Findings Predict Arctic Summer Ice Gone in 20 Years
Last summer, Arctic adventurer Pen Hadow led the Caitlin Ice Survey on a scientific expedition to the North Pole. Their objective was to take ice core samples to measure the average thickness of the...
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100th Anniversary of Roald Amundsen Reaching South Pole—How the Grueling Race...
By David Roberts; Photograph by London News/Getty Images It was the strangest of all races. Two teams of five men each—one British, the other Norwegian—set out at the beginning of the 1911 Antarctic...
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