Expeditions

On 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel to Adelaide, a...

A classic of Canadian travel literature, No Passport is Quebecois novelist and broadcaster Eugène Cloutier's account of his discovery of his countr...

Henry Birdie Bowers realised his lifes ambition when he was selected for Captain Scotts Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, yet he also met his...

E.F. (Teddy) Norton was a member of the 1922 Everest expedition and the leader of the 1924 attempt on the mountain. In 1922 he reached a then recor...

Petty Officer Edgar Evans was Captains Scotts giant worker and his invaluable assistant. He went with Scott on both the British Antarctic Expeditio...

In November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton watched horrified as the grinding floes of the Weddell Sea squeezed the life from his ship, Endurance, befo...

Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumours have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden deep in the Honduran interior. Ind...

In 1842 John C. Frémont led a party of twenty-five men on a five-month journey from Saint Louis to the Wind River Range in the Rocky Mountains; his...

11 July, 1897. Three men set out in a hydrogen balloon bound for the North Pole. They never return. Two days into their journey they make a crash l...

What leads us to believe in monsters? What happens when we meet the brutal creatures of our nightmares? Tales ...

The idea of owning anything except the experience is hubris.Unknown Pleasures is a collection of works by the climber and award-winning author Andy...

'Me not belong in the mountains? Why, I couldn't go on living without them! My thoughts, my dreams, my whole life were nothing but the mountains!'I...

Despite dramatic advances in technology and equipment over the centuries, there is one vital piece of kit in most explorers pockets that hasnt cha...

Over a century after she sank, the Endurance has been found, and here, in his own words, Sir Ernest Shackleton tells the extraordinary story of his...

An engrossing narrative of one man's struggle to achieve his dream against all odds, this is both a fast-paced adventure and a telling commentary o...

On a bright July morning in 1870 the British explorer George Hayward was brutally murdered high in the Hindu Kush. Who was he, what had brought him...

In 1924 Mount Everest remained unclimbed. Two British expeditions had already tackled what was known to be the highest mountain on Earth. The first...

North of the sixtieth parallel, the sun shines for less than six hours in the winter, and towering mountains are the only skyscrapers. Pristine wat...

As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then toddler, inten...

Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three very different sacre...

Joe Tasker lies, struck down by illness, in a damp, bug-infested room in the Himalaya, wondering if he will be well enough to climb Dunagiri, his f...

Join Karen as she takes a life-changing trip to the Antarctic which leads to her making an impulsive decision to leave the corporate world behind. ...