Perhaps, it’s not surprising that Stefansson, with his Icelandic ancestry, was drawn to the north. He became famous for spending two decades on Arctic expeditions from 1904 to 1924.

It turned out that they were poorly equipped for the brutal Arctic conditions. They were able to go as far as 83° 20'—the farthest any Western explorer had reached so far. But it was 450 miles ...

In the Kingdom of Ice tells the story of a "grand and terrible" 19th-century expedition into uncharted Arctic waters. Of the 33 men who set out, only 13 made it home after a truly harrowing voyage.

Before he was a famous Arctic explorer, he got kicked out of UND for helping football players cheat Vilhjalmur Stefansson was a quirky, colorful prankster and a brilliant international explorer ...