The total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026, will offer some fabulous travel options. Here are some adventures to consider.

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

HX Expeditions is launching community-led Arctic excursions and initiating a global marine conservation project, The Big Blue ...

Photo via Stellafane The following year, Dr. Frederick Cook, who had been a member of Peary’s Greenland expedition, offered to take passengers to the Arctic for a fee of $500.

The Shipwrecks From John Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition Were Exactly Where the Inuit Said They Would Be In May 1845, 129 British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest ...

The Greenland Expedition Office now requires groups to secure $139,000 to cover a potential Search and Rescue. Individuals need $39,000 or $83,000 for evacuation, depending on location.

Along with much of the American and British public in the mid-19th century, Charles Francis Hall was riveted by accounts of Sir John Franklin’s tragic 1845 expedition in search of the North ...

Le Commandant Charcot, the toughest expedition cruise vessel ever built, is taking me somewhere few humans have ever gone: the North Pole. And despite a few shudders, it's doing it with relative ease.

Stretching more than 2,000 miles from the Davis Strait near Greenland to the Bering Strait off Alaska, the still-often-iced-in Northwest Passage famously swallowed up the two-ship, 128-man Franklin ...

North Ice was a British research station established in 1952 during the British North Greenland Expedition. Situated on the inland ice of northern Greenland, it was one of the most remote and coldest ...

July 20, 1881 Dr. Octave Pavy, a surgeon, joins Greely's expedition in Greenland. He has previous experience in the Arctic and in treating health problems typical of the region. July 28, 1881 ...

On 2 September 1979, a small ice-strengthened ship, the MV Benjamin Bowring, set off from Greenwich at the start of one of the most ambitious private expeditions of modern times. The brain child of ...