Some of those specimens are on display here. Carefully collected on the way back from the Pole from the mountains which flank the treacherous Beardmore Glacier, they include coal, oolitic limestone ...

Most people will never stand at the bottom of the Earth. It's a place where the wind pierces through even the thickest clothing, and the sky seems to tilt in strange circles. However, a handful of ...

Relics from Captain Scott's doomed attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole are set to go under the hammer. A set of skis and ski poles used by a member of the Antarctic expedition, Frank ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1911, Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set out for the South Pole with little knowledge of nutrition, physiology, or ...