LANCE IN AND OUT OF LONGYEARBYEN: Ship carrying Børge Ousland and Mike Horn finally arrives after weeks of delays in sea ice, then departs from Tromsø less than an hour later
They were extremely eager to reach Longyearbyen after weeks of delays that saw them nearly run out of food on the ice sea and then...
LANCE LIBERATED: Børge Ousland and Mike Horn finally on way to Longyearbyen after ‘rescue’ ship stuck for two weeks in sea ice breaks free
The dramatic "not a rescue" retrieval of polar explorers Børge Ousland and Mike Horn may finally be nearing an end as the Lance research ship has...
CHILLINGLY CLOSE: Ship struggles to reach polar explorers Børge Ousland and Mike Horn from ice north of Svalbard as they run out of food after three-month ski trip over North Pole
Down to their last day of food and suffering frostbite in temperatures of minus 40 degrees Celsius after spending three months skiing the Arctic ice...
Random weirdness for the week of Jan. 31, 2017
The only thing worse than having somebody try to con us with "alternative facts" is having them succeed. Yup, we gobbled up the fiction in...
Into blackness: Svalbard’s 12 biggest stories of 2015
It was already a shell-shocked community beginning to say their farewells to possibly a quarter of the town's residents, with those left behind worrying about...
Cracking down: Lance ends six-month expedition on thin ice as scientists save gear while floe shatters
They spent their final days working feverishly on rapidly vanishing sea ice that threatened to break up and swallow their equipment. But Amelie Meyer said...
Random weirdness for the week of June 9, 2015
Scientists aboard the Lance research vessel suffered a bit of a performance problem with their seamen this week during what was described as a stumbling...
Lance is back on thin ice – but this time it’s a good thing
OK, here's more fun for climate change skeptics who say scientists can't be consistent in their conclusions: In the past, thin ice was a menace...
Lance ready for light duty after halftime stop in Longyearbyen
They didn't exactly get a relaxing spring break and when they talk about switching to light duty they're not talking about slacking off on the...
Lance struggling to return ‘home’ after successful hookup with space case
As scientists, they're probably aware of how achieving a contact high can be followed by the letdown of being left out in the cold. (more…)
