Roald Amundsen

When John Huston is doing his workouts, he often hears assorted wiseacres yelling out: "Hey, dude, where's your car?" or "Did you lose a bet?" Not such outrageous questions when you consider that Huston, a veteran dog sled racer, chains SUV tires...

Just One Thing . By Ellen Warren . If you thought Election Day would never come, you are not alone. It seems that the presidential political race has lasted—oh, about a lifetime. Finally, the presidential candidates are lurching to the finish...

Twenty sled dogs are straining at their chains, rising on their hind legs to paw the air. They yelp at the humans who are untangling harnesses and choosing 10 lucky huskies who will go for a run in the snowy North Woods. The dogs are wilder than a...

They're the South American equivalents of Williams, Ariz. And why? Because Williams only matters to us tourists -- and only has all those motel rooms -- because a well-known ditch called the Grand Canyon is an hour up the road. Ushuaia, in Argentina,...

We were on our way to Antarctica's Deception Island when the MV Discovery suddenly slowed to a nautical tiptoe. Looking out from our aerie on the bridge, I could see no imminent danger -- it just looked like we were sailing through a vast, gray Slushee....

They're the South American equivalents of Williams, Ariz. And why? Because Williams only matters to us tourists--and only has all those motel rooms--because a well-known ditch called the Grand Canyon is an hour up the road. Ushuaia, in Argentina,...

The dark, silent interiors of the three wooden huts are still pungent from the smoke of seal-blubber fires that once warmed men now long dead. Their dishes, pots, pans and scientific paraphernalia are scattered across tables and counters, and tins and...

ALL in all, these are good times in this Scandinavian capital. "The Scream," Norway's best-known painting — stolen in 2004 — is back home in the Munch Museum. In two weeks, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony will take place at City Hall. And...

SIMON DAGLISH and friend James Daly scored some creative Halloween costumes this year — replicas of the gear worn by Capt. Robert Scott on his ill-fated 1911 South Pole expedition, down to the beaver-skin mitts and reindeer boots. Except the outfits...

As a Boy Scout in my native Minnesota, Augusts were spent paddling in the wilderness canoe area at the U.S.-Canada border west of Lake Superior -- a vast, watery expanse that fueled my imagination. As an adult, I have continued this canoeing tradition...

Beginnings: Unlike much of the vast Hempstead Plains, Indians used this area because a stream, the Massatayun, flowed through it, providing a source of fish. When Englishman Thomas Powell purchased the area from the Marsapeques, he noted the nearby...

For 500 years, explorers nudged their ships through these Arctic waters, vainly seeking a shortcut to the riches of the East. The Northwest Passage, a deadly maze of sea ice, narrow straits and misshapen islands, still holds the traces of those who...