Antarctica
What would life on Mars actually look like?
It would need more than 100 million people to make it viable for a start – living in airlocked, subterranean bases, producing food and oxygen in artificially-lit greenhouses
The best journey in the world
Nothing compares with Antarctica
Cold comfort
The story of the five women waiting at home for Captain Scott and his doomed polar party is naturally occluded…
Lost for words
Jon McGregor has an extraordinary ability to articulate the unspoken through ethereal prose that observes ordinary lives from above without…
The glories of geography
’Tis the season of complacency, when we sit in warmth and shiver vicariously with Mary and Joseph out in the…
Explorer’s Notebook
I arrived on Novolazarevskaya base on the northern coast of Antarctica in a Russian plane, flown by an ex-USSR air…
Fantasy on ice
In this exciting new era of Spectator cruises I have been put in mind of a dream event long in…
