This is an expedition history. It does not describe actual records. The Smithsonian Institution Archives uses these histories as brief accounts of expeditions to set it in its historical context. If ...

On June 7, 1913, Alaska Native Walter Harper was the first person to summit Denali, the highest peak in North America. And though the face of our nation has evolved from mostly white to a mosaic of ...

How Did Shackleton Survive The Endurance Expedition? History Hit is aboard an expedition to locate one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance. Trapped and eventually ...

Five years ago, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, often referred to as the world’s greatest living explorer, began plotting to knock off one of the last great milestones in polar exploration: skiing 2,000 miles ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... History exhibits take us back in time, but they cannot escape the moment in which they were created. That is to say, every display of artifacts and ...