Results tagged “roald amundsen”

As monster trucks go this one is perhaps not the biggest but its probably be the toughest.

The bio-fuelled 4x4 vehicle will be in Antarctica in December where it will be used by polar explorer Jason De Carteret in his bid to break the record for the fastest overland crossing to the South Pole.

After centuries of exploration, countless lives lost, the North West Passage is in the news again.

For the first time, this fabled trading route between the Pacific and the North Atlantic may be commercially viable. But the victory may be a hollow one - because it reveals the extent to which ice cover in the Arctic has retreated.