PRESIDENT Mary McAleese led a stream of tributes to a team of intrepid Irish explorers when they arrived at the South Pole last week.Adventurers Pat Falvey, 50, from Kerry, Dr. Clare O'Leary, 35, from ...

All alone. Monet Izabeth pulled a 200-pound sled in the Antarctic wilderness to reach the South Pole. She’s the first ...

100 Years since Amundsen beat Scott to the pole. Dec. 18, 2011 — -- On December 14, 1911, a five-man Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen became the first explorers to reach the South Pole.

The North Pole, according to Erling Kagge, exists as a reductio ad absurdum. Having no longitude, it’s really no place at all. The same applies to the South Pole, of course. But unlike the South Pole, ...