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Official announcement about plane crash on Antarctica

The cause of death was multiple injuries.

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French to attempt North Pole catamaran crossing

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

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Winter South Pole crossing halted

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

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New ice-free map of Antarctica

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

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Film World Premiere: Nothing On Earth

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

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Greenland ski: dogs and deep snow

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

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Three Canadians completed Mount Logan circumski

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

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Jose Mijares and dog, Lonchas: best friends on Spitsbergen

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

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The Winners of the 61st Trento Film Festival

Scooner into the ice and mountaineers on a rescue mission.

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North Pole breaking news: Konyukhov and Simonov reached land

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

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Heads up: Circumski Mount Logan

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

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ExWeb interview with Art Mortvedt, flying the Polar Pumpkin to the South Pole and North Pole

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.

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Google Glass at Antarctica

We wore them in 2001. Yes we did.

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Skier dead on Greenland

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

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The Cycle Race for the South Pole: Spain's Juan Menendez Granados

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

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Chamonix Mountain Festival June 2013

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

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Russian amphibious cars crossed the Arctic Ocean

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

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French preparing for partial Northwest Passage rows

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

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The Cycle Race to the South Pole: Girl power, Kate Leeming

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.

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Greenpeace time capsule and flag lowered at the North Pole

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.

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Russians from the North Pole to land: cars crossed big lead, dogs crossed 88 degrees

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.

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Eyewitness: Adventurer in Boston bomb blast

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.

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Russian amphibious vehicles negotiating big lead and ridges

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.

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ExWeb interview with Kevin Vallely, the Northwest Passage, the iconic crux to the northern sea route

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.

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2013 North Pole: Last Degree ski expeditions

Barneo reports 6 Last Degree ski teams on the ice.

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Cars and dogsled departed from the North Pole

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

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Art Mortvedt and the Polar Pumpkin made it to the North Pole

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

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ExplorersWeb is hiring news editors with a passion for adventure

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

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North Pole dogsled: Russian expedition from 90°N to South Greenland

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.

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Russian amphibious vehicles closing in on the North Pole

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'

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In search for the 1913 German Schröder-Stranz Svalbard Expedition remains

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.

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Heads up: Minnesota adventurers to Baffin Island, collaborating with Arctic schools

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.

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Polar Vision South Pole ski documentary - blind man to the Pole

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."

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Ice Camp Barneo 2013 is open

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

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Last letter of Captain Scott finally revealed in full - 101 years on

"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.

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Heads up: Gavin Bate and team to 1996 Magnetic North 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.

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Expedition watch: Max Keene (13) off to the Arctic

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

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Blu-Ray 3D, DVD and Digital Download: "To The Arctic"

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

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ExWeb interview with The Tractor Girl, Manon Ossevoort: machines, mechanics, modifications and mates (Part 2 of 2)

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.

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ExWeb interview with The Tractor Girl, Manon Ossevoort: "I created a story that ultimately just had to become a real-life adventure" (Part 1 of 2)

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.

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Winter South Pole crossing: Bad summer weather before winter-start March 21

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.

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Expedition watch: Ellesmere Island on the footsteps Otto Sverdrup about to start

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

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ExWeb South Pole kick-off interview: Daniel Burton, return cycle journey

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.

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Pittarak Expedition Video: Greenland Crossing 2007

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

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Francois Quiquet off to Sweden's Sarek National Park.

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

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1996 Magnetic North Pole ski: RAF Matt Stowers and Kev O'Brien start delayed by blizzard

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.

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Antarctic Scientists Discover 18 kg Meteorite

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

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Russian amphibious vehicles started Arctic sea ice crossing

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

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Mike O'Shea and Clare O'Leary set off skiing across Lake Baikal

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

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South Pole skier, Mark Wood, heading to Everest with Skype

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

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Russian Yemelya vehicles to attempt Arctic crossing via North Pole

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.

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South Pole 100 years ago: The World learns about Scott's fate

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

 
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