The cause of death was multiple injuries.

Sebastian Roubinet and Vincent Berthet plan to use wind and human power on water and ice.

Kilometers of crevasse fields made progress slow and eventually brought the Brits to a halt.

The British Antarctic Survey and NASA released a virtual map of Antarctica's underlying topography.

Sydney Film Festival World Premiere 6.45pm Sunday June 9, 2013.

Victor and Fedor sorted out dog issues while one meter deep snow on the east coast was an issue for skiers.

This route is done about once every two years - "this reflects attempts rather than successes".

The aim was to experience the solitude and enjoy the landscape.

Scooner into the ice and mountaineers on a rescue mission.

Fedor Konyukhov and Victor Simonov and their dogs completed a full route from 90°N to Canada

Jerry Kobalenko, Glen Crawford and Jerry Auld are off to the most massive non-volcanic mountain on earth.

Every person has a story to tell, says Alaskan bush pilot, Art Mortvedt. So has he after flying the 1980 Cessna A185F to the ends of the earth.

We wore them in 2001. Yes we did.

The infamous blizzard on Greenland, the pittaraq, has claimed a life and forced other teams to abort their expeditions.

A 90kg sled behind a bicycle. The distance 1,130 km; uphill, into the wind.

No age limit, no climbing grade limit. June 1-8, 2013. Chamonix Mont-Blanc, French Alps.

7 men, 2 vehicles, 61 days from Russia to Canada via the Geographic North Pole.

Anne Quéméré alone in her kayak, and Charles Hedrich and Pierre-Marie Bazin in their rowboat.

Professional Australian athlete, Kate Leeming, and her world’s first all-wheel-drive fatbike are preparing to cycle from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole.

Get there in style.

It contains 2.7 million signatures and will surface in 50 years. Also news about Russian teenagers at 90°N, and a 60+ hour storm enroute to the 1996 Magnetic North Pole.

The amphibious vehicles crossed 70 meters of unstable lead ice. Konyukhov & Simonov covered 27 miles in a day. Matvey Shparo & Boris Smolin skied the Last Degree with a youth group.

Yemelya-4 crossing hummocks.

The blast at the finish line of the Boston Marathon was unlike anything he has ever experienced, said Richard Laronde to ExWeb. He stood about 50m from the 1st blast. His event managing company was involved in the organization of the marathon.

The car team walked among the chaos of huge three meter high ice blocks before they reached the actual line of division, a big lead.

Already 15 years ago the seed for a traverse a part of the Northwest Passage under human power in a single season was planted in Kevin's mind, by none other than Jerome Truran, one of the world’s top downriver paddlers in the 80’s.

Sharper view of the Southern Ocean

Four months ahead on the ice.

Barneo reports 6 Last Degree ski teams on the ice.

The amphibious cars continue their North Pole crossing, and the two Russians and their 12 dogs are heading for Greenland across the sea ice.

Art Mortvedt flew the same plane, the Polar Pumpkin, to the South Pole and the North Pole.

Join a global team of writers and athletes pushing the edge.

Fyodor/Fedor Konyukhov and Victor Simonov are to attempt a dogsled expedition from the North Pole to the Southern tip of Greenland, starting tomorrow, April 6th.

The two cars with 7 team members started from Russia on March 1st. Latest position on April 5th: N 89° 16.892, E106° 28.747'

Hundred years ago, during the ill-fated German expedition, the leader, Herbert Schröder-Stranz, and 7 men died on Svalbard. A group of German speaking adventurers are setting out to find possible remains on Nordaustlandet.

This adventure learning expedition is tied to the North of Sixty° project, which is collaborating with schools from around the circumpolar Arctic to document traditional knowledge and create a global tapestry of video stories.

One of the people who inspires South Pole record holder Hannah McKeand most: "Alan Lock, my severely partially sighted client who skied to the South Pole with me."

The camp, supporting scientists and Last Degree skiers to the Geographic North Pole, is open for the season.

"I want to tell you that I was not too old for this job. It was the younger men that went under first," wrote Robert Falcon Scott 101 years ago in one of his last letters before he perished on his return journey from the South Pole.

In April Gavin Bate will be one of two guides for a team of 10 people participating in the 2013 ski and sledge-hauling Polar Race to the 1996 position of the Magnetic North Pole.

The teenager, his father and their guide left London with sleds and skis for Baffin Island.

Love, family and survival in the harshest place on earth, available from March 26, 2013.

Manon tells ExplorersWeb about modifications to the tractors for Antarctica, her team mates, and following the Brits on their Cats across Antarctica this South Pole Winter.

As an actor she created a story that turned into reality, a story of a seemingly impossible dream; to make a journey to The End of the World, the South Pole, on a tractor - like Edmund Hillary.

The British winter crossing team was snowed in for 4 days. They did a lot of digging to get the vehicles on the surface again; this in the last days of the Antarctic summer, before their start that coincides with the equinox.

John Huston, Tobias (Toby) Thorleifsson, Hugh Dale-Harris and Kyle O’Donoghue arrive today on Baffin Island, on their way to Ellesmere Island.

No one has cycled a full route to the South Pole yet. Last year Eric Larsen set the challenge. End of the year an American team will attempt a supported return journey.

Video of Eric McNair-Landry, Sarah McNair-Landry and Curtis Jones backpacking, sledge-hauling and kite-skiing on Greenland for 45 days.

This is an uninhabited area with no tracks and no huts, says the Frenchman.

No skiers are attempting a ski to the Geographic North Pole this year. Two RAF men in Resolute Bay are waiting out winds up to 60 km/h, gusting 100 km/h for their ski to the 1996 position of the Magnetic NP.

The meteorite is currently undergoing a special thawing process in Japan, to ensure water doesn't get inside the rock.

They set off from Russia to the North Pole; attempt crossing to Canada.

The Irish team has set off on the first leg of their Ice Project; skiing across the major ice fields of the world.

Leaving by Cat and Caboose.

Mark Wood wants to SKYPE on route to the top of Everest with a BGAN Unit to as high as they can go.

A brief moment without a glove.

MLAE-2013's amphibious vehicles will attempt to cross the Arctic Ocean from Sredniy Island in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago via the North Pole to Resolute Bay, Canada; starting end of February.

"If Captain Scott is not on the Terra Nova then the position is grave," speculated the 1913 media.