FORT GREELY, Alaska -- Army paratroopers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, set up fighting positions in the cold dark just before dawn near Fort Greely, Alaska, during ...

As more and more tourists and workers head to the thawing Arctic, technology is helping them suit up for the high north. By Susan Moran Updated on Jul 19, 2021 We may earn revenue from the products ...

A researcher from the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine joined Vermont Army National Guard soldiers in the Canadian Arctic recently to study improvements to military cold-weather ...

NATICK, Mass. -- There are very cold environments and then there is Arctic cold. In the Arctic, a single mistake or mishap may be only minutes from disaster. A lost glove system, an ignored cold foot, ...

Winter was disappearing near my home. But I had one last cold-weather gear test to perform, and the lake ice under a nearby bridge (wet, smooth as glass, still a foot thick in the shadows) would ...

Eric Larsen is a polar adventurer and expedition guide, and the first person to Tweet from the North Pole and top of Mt. Everest. He is the author of On Thin Ice. This journey to the North Pole is one ...

There’s a race that you may or may not know of. It’s a 320 nautical mile ski race to the Magnetic North Pole. It’s called the Polar Challenge, and it’s a grueling test of cold weather stamina and ...