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HBS Working Knowledge
August 4, 2003
Martha Lagace |
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival Polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton is the subject of a new HBS case study. Professor Nancy F. Koehn discusses lessons for leaders from the voyage of the Endurance.   |
Outside
December 2003
Brad Wieners |
Endurance Rush Two rival British teams launch a tenacious race to find Shackleton's long-lost ship |
Geotimes
March 2006
Lisa Rossbacher |
Can You Hear me Now? The world of communication is completely different from what the early explorers of this continent experienced -- one full of constant connection. |
Outside
October 2008
Claire Napier Galofaro |
Sons of the Nimrod Descendants of Shackleton's 1908 South Pole crew set out on another attempt. |
AskMen.com
Eliana Osborn |
Adventure Fitness Are you tough as tough as an epic 19th-century explorer? These workouts will tell you. |
Popular Mechanics
March 15, 2010
Trevor Williams |
Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up. |
Fast Company
September 2004
Cheryl Dahle |
On Thin Ice After a history-making, 94-day trek across Antarctica, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen faced the toughest challenge of their journey: finding the courage to surrender. |
Outside
February 2006
Melinda Mahaffey |
Sit, Stay...Survive! The real-life hairy adventure behind Disney's new polar epic Eight Below tells the story of a team of sled dogs who live through a brutal Antarctic winter after the scientists who brought them in have to evacuate. |
Popular Mechanics
February 19, 2010
Trevor Williams |
On Thick Ice: Live From An Antarctic Drilling Trip The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program is exploring the ocean floor around Antarctica to learn how the ice sheet reacted in warmer climates of the past and how they might respond to future warming. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Martin & Case |
Fossil Hunting in Antarctica Expeditions to the continent of Antarctica has brought great information about animals in the distant past and show that the world, and particularly Antarctica, was much warmer around 70 million years ago compared to the present. |
Outside
February 2004
Natasha Singer |
Break On Through The dream of a Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic to the riches of Asia has driven explorers and visionary adventurers for centuries. With climate change in the air, The author braves the frigid 900-mile journey to find out if the old, mythic dream is becoming an epic new reality. |
Outside
April 2010 |
Skiing Antarctica Gallery and Video Expedition footage from the bottom of the world. |
High on Adventure
June 2002
Gordon Grover |
Antarctica Adventure Cruising the icy continent in tux & snowpack boots... |
Popular Mechanics
March 18, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Mars Researchers Take an Arctic Road Trip This trip is meant to be a dry run for an even more extreme environment -- the surface of Mars. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2007
Margo Pfeiff |
Voyage to the Top of the Earth (Almost) To reach the High Arctic, a Canadian coast guard icebreaker needs 17,000 horsepower, six diesel/electric engines and one slippery coat of paint. |
Geotimes
March 2006
Powell et al. |
Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales. |
Scientific American
July 2008
Peter Brown |
NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict. |
Outside
October 2002
Ian Frazier |
Terminal Ice Hot enough for you? Go to the bottom of the planet -- or the top -- and you can't miss the warning signs of a warm apocalypse. And at the heart of the mystery, like broken shards of a colder climate, float the icebergs, ghost-white messengers trying to tell us something we can't fathom. |
Outside
December 2009
Emily Stone |
Shackleton's Lost Whiskey De-icing the explorer's missing drink. |
Outside
November 2001
Rob Buchanan |
Beat the Crowds. Antarctica Now. As the Last Cool Place becomes an adventure-travel magnet, the scientists and bureaucrats who run the show are feeling crowded. Is this big, beautiful continent big enough for everybody? |
Adventure
April 2006
Richard A. Lovett |
Bears, Winds Fail to Derail Winter North Pole Trek The first ever winter trek to the North Pole reached its goal despite setbacks from weather, equipment failures, and polar bears. |
AskMen.com
Sachin Bhola |
How To Survive The Winter In Style We decided to stop some men on the street -- men who are proof positive that you don't have to compromise style even in the harshest weather. Here are their tips for pulling it off. |
Geotimes
April 2007
Sally Adee |
Massive Antarctic Lakes Discovered The recent discovery of a massive "plumbing" system of linked reservoirs 1,000 meters beneath two major ice streams of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may help fill out climate change models. |
Outside
April 2010
Rob Story |
You Wish You Were Here These days, cutting-edge expeditions often happen because gear companies believe there's promotional gold in the combination of top outdoor athletes, dream adventures (like skiing first descents in the mountains of Antarctica). |
Outside
June 2007
Anthony Cerretani |
International Man of Mystery Conrad Anker heads back to Everest, in search of answers. |
Chemistry World
August 2008 |
Cold chemistry Intrepid researchers will brave the harshest conditions in the name of science. Ned Stafford talks to some of Antarctica's chemists |
Adventure
May 2004 |
Ask Adventure Is it true that some of history's most famous expeditions were made up of volunteers answering ads that promised adventure and possible death? |
Fast Company
December 2009
Anne C. Lee |
Freeze: The Antarctic Treaty Turns 50 On the first of December 1959, 12 nations signed a pact freezing territorial claims and banning military activity in Antarctica. Here's a tour. |
Smithsonian
July 2007
J. Madeleine Nash |
Chronicling the Ice Long before global warming became a cause celebre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought. |
Adventure
February 2004 |
Ask Adventure Have outdoors photographers started using digital cameras? If so, which ones and how do they compare with film?... In the accounts of early arctic explorers, they're always eating something called pemmican. What is it exactly, and do polar explorers still eat it?... |
Geotimes
March 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Ice Hunter: Q&A With Lonnie Thompson An interview with glaciologist and Byrd Polar Research Center scientist Lonnie Thompson about what it mean to hunt ice and about some his current work. |
Geotimes
June 2007
Megan Sever |
Antarctic Ice May be Grinding to a Halt Some of Antarctica's ice sheets may not be in as much danger as once thought. |
Geotimes
November 2007
Nicole Branan |
Water Pours Through Pores in Sea Ice Scientists have come up with a new model that describes how water moves through the Arctic sea ice beneath melt ponds, helping them to make better climate predictions. |
Outside
October 2005
Stark et al. |
Let the Bad Times Roll Thirteen unlucky people tell of their worst moments while outdoors... Great books about bad luck... Ten worst adventure disasters of the past 200 years... |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Damon Tabor |
Scientists May Soon Outnumber Penguins at Earth's Poles Tens of thousands of scientists are zipping up their parkas for the latest International Polar Year initiative. |
Outside
November 2009
Bruce Barcott |
The 10 Greatest Adventure Biographies The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory by Peter and Leni Gillman... Ernest Shackleton by Roland Huntford... Henry Morton Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer By Tim Jeal... etc. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Sara Pratt |
Antarctic Ice Connections The West Antarctic ice sheet contains 3.2 million cubic kilometers of ice. Were it to collapse due to global warming, it would raise global sea level by 5 meters, catastrophically inundating low-lying areas. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Paleo-Antarctic Puzzle Even though Antarctica was at the south pole around 35 million years ago, it was warm and relatively ice free. What exactly caused its shift to a deep freeze has long puzzled paleoclimatologists. |
National Defense
December 2009
Austin Wright |
Polar Ice Surveillance At Rock Bottom Prices University of Kansas researchers needed an unmanned aerial vehicle that could carry 120 pounds worth of radar equipment at low altitudes and over icy terrain to measure vital information for the Navy in Antarctica. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2013
Dave Levitan |
Laser Eyes Spy a Big Melt in the Arctic Airborne altimeters yield a disturbing picture of polar ice loss |
Real Travel Adventures
November 2006
Sheila O'Connor |
Chill Out at the Ice Hotel and Have an "Ice Stay" "Beautiful. And frigid". That's the comment left by one brave guest at Canada's famed Ice Hotel on the shores of beautiful Lac St.-Joseph, a mere 20 minutes west of Quebec. |
