KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — An East Tennessee woman is back home after competing in a marathon at the North Pole. She ran 26.2 miles on frozen ice of the Arctic Ocean, all while enduring extreme temperatures.
The polar vortex is stirring up, bringing the earliest hints that the weather is changing with the new fall season. When is ...
“The history of the many attempts to reach the North Pole,” Norwegian author and adventurer Erling Kagge writes, “is also the history of how illusions of a frozen wasteland can lure people to their ...