antarctica

Advancements in polar sailing allow travelers to explore Antarctica’s little-visited areas The polar vessel was driving through a sheet of pearl-colored ice and snow like a spoon through creme brulee. Though we were south of the Antarctic Circle, it was mid-January, late in the austral summer...

Travel: Antarctica will turn your perceptions of life upside down - The Orange County Register The largely unpopulated continent isn't a destination, it's a profound experience. In icy, dicey bottom-of-the-world Antarctica, I melt when a fuzzy penguin chick hatches from a cracked egg...