It’s as clear as the footage from 10,000 feet below that Shackleton was a hero. But there were many figures in what’s known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. For me, the most compelling of ...

In November 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his British team of explorers began a trek across the ice of Antarctica, trying to be the first to reach the South Pole. They arrived at their ...

What doomed Captain Robert Falcon Scott's British Antarctic Expedition in 1912? Scientists have uncovered documents and diary entries that suggest a team member stole food Scott needed, failed to pass ...

On this day (March 29) 100 years ago, Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott scrawled his last entry into the diary the British navy man had faithfully kept since the start of his ill-fated expedition ...

In 1910, two explorers—Roald Amundsen of Norway and Robert Falcon Scott of Britain—set out to conquer the last untouched frontier on Earth: the South Pole. What began as a race for glory ended in ...