“I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.” —Reinhold MessnerIt’s the world’s highest mountain (sort of), it’s a potential death-trap for thrill-seekers, and it attracts hundreds of hopeful climbers every...
The attempt to dig a canal through Panama was led by French diplomat and builder Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had earlier triumphed with the Suez Canal. Though the project had a promising start soon turned into one of history’s biggest engineering failures.
“I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.” —Reinhold MessnerIt’s the world’s highest mountain (sort of), it’s a potential death-trap for thrill-seekers, and it attracts hundreds of hopeful climbers every...
Why is the ocean salty? It actually wasn’t always salty—but a few billion years and some basic chemistry made it that way. So how did it happen?
South Pole Editorial. Two men led the first expeditions to our planet’s southernmost point in 1912. But only one of those men made it back alive.
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