Expeditions

Touch the Sky recounts the experience of Tess Burrows climb to the summit of Africas highest mountain. This gutsy and compassionate grandmother has...

In Along the Divide, Chris Townsend embarks on a 700-mile walk along the spine of Scotland, the line of high ground where fallen rain runs either w...

As a boy growing up near Liverpool in the 1950s, Andrew Lees would visit the docks with his father to watch the ships from Brazil unload their exot...

In the 1380s and 90s, Nicolò and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and...

Experience in the polar explorers own words, Ernest Shackletons thrilling yet ill-fated expedition on the ship Endurance, the wreck of which was di...

'Mr Ponting has it in his power greatly to delight!' Lady Kathleen Scott Herbert Ponting was the photographer on Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedit...

This book traces the origin of the legend of El Dorado and the various expeditions that set out to locate that mysterious land of untold wealth ...

In 1700, a young man named John Lawson left London and landed in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to make a name for himself. For reasons unknown...

In 1913, an expedition was sent to the Arctic, funded by the American Museum of Natural History, the American Geographical Society and the Unive...

John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adv...

Photos, historical tales, and literary quotes share the secrets of Earth's most spectacular canyon system From the supernal peaks of sacred te...

Michael Palin, President of the Royal Geographical Society wrote of the author, in his book Sahara: 'Tom Sheppard, doyen of the desert.' '...a pass...

Part of the TED series: The Boiling River This fantastical tale - which sent scores of Spanish conquistadores to their death during the great age o...

The North Face of the Eiger was long renowned as the most dangerous climb in the Swiss Alps, one that had cost the lives of numerous mountaineers. ...

In 1909, while dreaming of the Himalaya, Norwegian mountaineer Alf Bonnevie Bryn and a fellow young climber, the Australian George Ingle Finch, set...

On 14 December 1911, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first human beings to reach the South Pole, just over a month be...

February 1912: Harry Pennell and his Terra Nova shipmates brave storms and ice to bring supplies to Antarctica. They hope to celebrate Captain Scot...

Much has been written on Antarctic explorer, Ernest Shackleton. This is the story of the Endurance expedition's other hero, Joseph Russell Stenhous...

The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Bonington's autobiography after I Chose to Climb, picks up his story from 1962 and relates his subsequ...