Sri Lankan mountaineer Johann Peries has achieved a remarkable milestone, becoming the first Sri Lankan to summit Mount ...

Johann Peries has reached the summit of Mount Vinson, the highest mountain in Antarctica at 4,892 metres ... him face extreme conditions on some of the world’s most dangerous mountains, including ...

He has twice climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, which stands at 5,895 meters, most recently in March 2010. In December 2012, he reached the peak of Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica with a height ...

Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

In 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his 27-man crew set sail on a journey to Antarctica. Their mission? To become the first people to ever cross the entire continent, which is roughly 1.3 ...

Happy Valley-Goose Bay family physician Samantha Harper ran an ultra-marathon in Antarctica ... and rugged mountains in one of the most remote places on Earth. The winner of the race completed ...

Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate change on Antarctic ice shelves. It found that while there has been broad ice ...

There is indirect evidence that, during the last interglacial period, about 125,000 years ago, parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated. An ice core drilled from the ice sheet near the ...