White desert

Why not follow in the wake of Jane McDonald’s cruise ship — and experience the beauty, wildlife and adventure of Antarctica?

The town of Ilulissat, with its brightly coloured wooden houses, sits on the banks of a spectacular ice fjord at the mouth of the Jakobshavn Glacier on the west coast of Greenland. With a population o

AS the days remain dark and gloomy in the UK and our garden plants retreat from winter’s chill, the flowers in the Southern Hemisphere continue to open their petals to a glorious summer. Like the flow

JULIA BRADBURY on her 4,000-mile icy adventure from the Falklands to Antarctica…

I’m awake. Very awake. It’s early on a wind-whipped Sunday morning and I’m neck-deep in the sea off the Isle of Man’s north-east coast. The rain is steady, the swell is heavy and the water is gaspindu

Spencer Matthews is no stranger to an extreme challenge. But his recent expedition had even him doubting whether he’d reach the finish line. Here, he recounts the highs and lows