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Stephen Harper renews hunt for Franklin ships long lost to the Arctic depths
The search for the remnants of an ill-fated British expedition that failed to cross the Northwest Passage — and a seminal moment in Canada’s history on Arctic sovereignty — will start anew.
In the coming weeks, a group of researchers will scour Canada’s Arctic waters to find Sir John Franklin’s two ships, Erebus and the Terror, led by a ship named for an Arctic researcher who perished in a plane crash last year.
The renewal of Parks Canada’s search for the lost Franklin vessels, follows three recent federal expeditions that failed to locate Erebus and Terror but ruled out huge swaths of the Arctic Ocean seabed as possible resting places for the sunken ships.
Amelia Earhart group narrows in on search for plane 75 years after disappearance
A $2.2 million expedition is hoping to finally solve one of America’s most enduring mysteries: What exactly happened to famed aviator Amelia Earhart when she went missing over the South Pacific 75 years ago?
Canadian climber Shriya Shah-Klorfine among three dead in Mount Everest ‘death zone’
Shriya Shah-Klorfine, of Toronto, was among three people who died while descending from the summit Saturday in what are being described as overcrowded conditions.
“My wife was someone who lived life to its fullest, with irrepressible energy and vitality,” said her husband Bruce Klorfine. “She died in the pursuit of her dreams, and with the satisfaction of having achieved them.”
The three climbers who died were believed to have suffered exhaustion and altitude sickness, Nepali mountaineering official Gyanendra Shrestha said. Two others were missing Monday as officials were still gathering details from descending climbers.
The death toll raised concerns about overcrowding in what’s known as the “death zone” at the top of Everest.
Why do you want to climb an iceberg? Because it’s there, of course
On a Wednesday afternoon in St. John’s, N.L., Justin Emberley saw a 45-metre iceberg floating less than 100 feet from shore in Quidi Vidi Harbour. He called up his friend, Kevin Le Morzadec, a French citizen doing his Ph.D. on the subject of glacier modeling in Newfoundland, and said, “Let’s climb it.” And climb it they did. They put on their wetsuits and life vests, threw their ice picks and clamp-ons in their bags, jumped in the frigid ocean and swam to the iceberg. The National Post’s Kristin Annable spoke Thursday to Mr. Le Morzadec, as Mr. Emberley listened nearby. (Photos: Jerry Curtis)
See James Cameron emerge from the deepest point on Earth after taking a submarine to the Mariana Trench
Avatar film director James Cameron has completed the world’s first solo dive to the deepest-known point on Earth, reaching the bottom of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench southwest of Guam in a specially designed submarine.
The filmmaker arrived at the site known as “Challenger Deep” shortly before 8 a.m. local time on Monday, reaching a depth of 35,756 feet, or roughly 7 miles beneath the ocean’s surface, said the National Geographic Society, which is overseeing the expedition.
“Hitting bottom never felt so good. Can’t wait to share what I’m seeing w/ you,” the 57-year-old filmmaker said on Twitter, just after he touched down. (Photos: Reuters/National Geographic/Mark Thiessen)
Graphic: Voyage to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
At a depth of 11,034 metres, the Mariana Trench is the lowest point on the surface of the Earth’s crust. And it’s become the focus of an inner-space race between filmmaker James Cameron and Sir Richard Branson
A new look at the deadly race to the South Pole as revealed in archive photos
One hundred years ago, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen won the race to the South Pole in a dramatic and ultimately fatal duel with British adventurer Robert Scott that captured the world’s attention.
On December 14, 1911, not long before the outbreak of World War I, as nationalism was on the rise in Europe, Amundsen and the four members of his team were the first to plant the Norwegian flag at the southernmost tip of the globe. Robert Scott arrived at the pole five weeks later only to find the Norwegian flag already there.
While Roald Amundsen would live until 1928, Robert Scott would never leave the frozen continent. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
