For one man to have conquered the Northwest Passage, the North Magnetic Pole, and the South Pole is almost beyond imagination, yet Roald Amundsen accomplished all three in less than 10 years in ...

In 2014 the Nunavik became the first cargo ship to go through the Northwest Passage without an icebreaking escort ship leading the way Climate change is increasingly opening up the Northwest ...

Of all the brave Britishers who for 400 years had given freely of their treasure, courage, and enterprise to dauntless but unsuccessful attempts to negotiate the Northwest Passage, none was braver ...

An adventurer from Edinburgh has set two world records by kayaking the Arctic's Northwest Passage. Mark Agnew began the 2,000 mile journey from Baffin Bay, Greenland, in July, and completed it ...

The pair are now the first to have ever crossed the Northwest Passage, while self-propelled and in a single season. "As Adam ...

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With Operation Nanook, the Canadian soldiers trying to protect the far north are also accelerating its transformation ...

Ships on frontier-pushing missions through this Northwest Passage were crushed by moving ice or stranded for years at a time, subject to the perils of illness, scurvy, even cannibalism.

The two-month expedition, inspired by historic Viking journeys, visits Greenland and crosses the storied Northwest Passage ...