However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year, covering 722,000 sq ...

Robert Falcon Scott and his men had hauled their supply sledges across 800 miles of ice from their base camp ... early in the expedition to the South Pole. But they would after they set out ...

But from 260 miles above in space, he saw no trace of humanity — just desolation: a seemingly endless view of pure white ice ... zooms from the North Pole to the South Pole in just over ...

The mission is expected to last between three and five days, with the crew orbiting Earth multiple times from the north to the south pole at an altitude ... s vast white ice sheets.