Darren Edwards knows a lot about hopelessness; one minute, he was rock climbing in North Wales about to finish his route, and ...

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A Reddit user believes they’ve found a face peering back at them in a Google Earth image from Antarctica. The satellite ...

A pilot has deconstructed the mystery around why airplanes avoid flights over Antartica – and the reasoning may surprise you.

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Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...