Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton had started out in 1914 with a mission to be the first to … See more

As part of Great Britain’s quest to find the Northwest Passage, its Admiralty organized a bare-bones expedition to seek an overland route through northern Canada. Sir John Fr… See more

After graduating from high school in Lima, Peru, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke boarded a flight with her mother to the remote Panguana biological station,founded by her parents. Li… See more

In the early 1920s, 25-year-old Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiat widow with a young son, was hired as a cook and seamstress for an ill-conceived expedition to claim Wrangel Isl… See more

Each of the twists and turns in Hugh Glass’s survival storycould have proven fatal. On a fur-trading expedition in South Dakota in 1823, he was mauled by a grizzly bear to with… See more

A series of disasters befell Australian explorer Douglas Mawson’s Far Eastern Sledge Party, which had set off from Cape Denison in Antarcticain November 1912. He and two col… See more