Expedition Amundsen is perhaps one of the world’s toughest ski races, and held in the equally brutal Hardangervidda mountain plateau in southern Norway. The site is the largest such plateau in Europe, and to give an inkling of the weather conditions there, also holds some…
Prince Harry of Wales plans to join four wounded soldiers in a journey to Antarctica to benefit a veterans’ charity. The younger son of Britain’s House of Windsor had previously embarked on a trip to the North Pole in 2011 as part of a documentary film,…
Yuichiro Miura was once the oldest man to climb the world’s most famous mountain, and the first to ski down it. Born to a family of skiers, both Miura’s father and his own son garnered worldwide fame on the slopes, and the 80-year-old is no…
Spiridon Vinokurov, 48, was traveling on his snowmobile near the small village of Berelekha in Siberia when he became lost. According to the Siberian Times, a sudden snowstorm had blown in when Vinokurov was checking the traps he had set up near his lodge, where he…
Russian helicopter pilots from the country’s Khanty-Mansi district helped save a over 600-pound moose late last month. According to The Moscow Times, a helicopter pilot from the Uralhelicom manufacturing company found the moose where it had fell through the ice. The pilot realized it was still alive…
