In 1994, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge completed ... is Kagge’s fellow Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen who came within 4 degrees ...

Beginning at the North Pole, the pair had skied 600 ... Cape Flora on Northbrook Island, where Nansen and Johansen were rescued by British explorer Frederick George Jackson, they too were eager ...

A couple of weeks ago, the North Pole/Barneo ice camp season fizzled ... This serendipitous discovery gave the polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen an idea. He built a walnut-shaped ship called the ...

To keep the explorers warm, Nansen insulated his vessel with ... Although they were still 226 miles shy of the Pole, they had ventured farther north than any human ever had. It was the largest ...

British explorer George Strong Nares failed in his quest for the North Pole, but Norwegian genius Fridtjof Nansen got closer to the mythical point on the map than anyone before. The international ...

Hadow is a vastly experienced Polar explorer, with more than two dozen expeditions to his name. In 1997 he organised the successful first all women's relay expedition to the North Pole ...