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

Some people go through life thick-skinned. School or career has given them a pragmatic, instrumental, efficiency-maximizing ...

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

We usually think of NASA scientists as working specifically on projects to be launched into space, but they also carry out ...

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.

The team consisting of nine researchers was set to spend the harsh Antarctic winter at the South African-operated research base in Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, a remote area located ...

Engineers drilled a well in the camp to access 10,000 gallons of fresh water daily, and insulated, heated piping ran throughout the facility for water and electricity. The base also featured a ...

FILE: The South African National Antarctic Expedition research base, SANAE IV, at Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Picture: Dr Ross Hofmeyr, Wildmedic (talk) 14:41, 17 August 2008 (UTC ...

Many of us perceive Antarctica as a distant and mysterious corner of the world. The coldest and most wind-swept region on Earth was the last continent to be discovered. Today, it stands as a ...

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

Captain Weaver and his team were given a tour of the base – located on Galindez Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Vernadsky Research Base, formerly the British Faraday ...