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Chantal Mauduit's remarkable life was defined by mountaineering, her poetic spirit, and her tragic end on Dhaulagiri I at age ...

A photographer, an airline pilot, a ship’s captain and others reveal where you’ll find the most spectacular, intriguing and ...

Isolation, frigid temperatures and old food are small prices to pay for the opportunity to do research in Antarctica.

Camp Century was built to store nukes beneath Greenland's ice. See photos of the underground, "Star Wars"-like site.

A member of the team, which is confined for the next 13 months, emailed authorities pleading for help after the man allegedly ...

Nestled above the 76th parallel in northwestern Greenland, Pituffik Space Base is one of the most remote military installations on Earth.

A geologist returning from SANAE IV base in Antarctica revealed severe psychological challenges among crew members, including violent incidents and threats. With extreme conditions and total ...

A tense situation among members of an isolated base in Antarctica could foretell conflicts among astronauts on a long distance journey to Mars. The South African Antarctic research base ...

They are members of a South African research team, sent to a remote base in Antarctica (located over 4200km south of Cape ...

There's a long and contentious history of US interest in the Arctic island, but it seems to have entered a new phase under ...