Editor's Note: This archival story was first published on June 30, 2021. MOORHEAD — When new students come to Concordia College in Moorhead, they’ll get the grand tour from the dorms to the dining ...

Unlike the leader of the doomed Franklin expedition, Roald Amundsen delighted in getting to know and learning from the Inuit. By Norimitsu Onishi Julian Sancton’s “Madhouse at the End of the Earth” ...

The great polar explorer Roald Amundsen stood by himself on the frozen Arctic shore, staring into the distance. He was fifty-three years old—but looked seventy-five—and bankrupt. On the ice in front ...

He caused an uproar by challenging the heroic status of Robert Falcon Scott, the Briton who led a doomed quest to the South Pole in 1912. By Clay Risen Unlike the leader of the doomed Franklin ...

Julian Sancton’s “Madhouse at the End of the Earth” details Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery’s effort to explore Antarctica, and all of the ways it went wrong. By NICOLE CLIFFE This overstuffed trek ...