John Mowat remembers the day 71 years ago when he and three others became the first to climb the Grand Teton’s Second Tower, a pyramid on the mountain’s skyline that partially crumbled last fall. He ...

The Ascent of Man is a thirteen-part documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first transmitted in 1973, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski. Intended as a series of ...

THIS little handbook, by Dr. H. S. Harrison, curator of the Horniman Museum, is written simple language, and admirably suited to stimulate interest in the recent remarkable progress our knowledge of ...

David Edgerton is Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology at King’s College London, where he teaches in the department of history. His most recent book is The Rise and Fall of ...

This paper examines public maritime history over a century and a half. The museum's shipping galleries include a significant number of non-European small craft juxtaposed with European boats and ships ...

Viewers who have not yet succumbed to the soft-voiced charms of Brian Cox – and I counted myself among their dwindling number until this week – will find little in the opening sequence of his new BBC2 ...

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On 1 July Josune Bereziartu and Rikar Otegi made the first free ascent of Yeah man on the north face of the Gran Pfad, in the Swiss Gastlosen mountain range. On 1 July Josune Bereziartu and Rikar ...

Step out of your office in Douglas and the ocean is a stone’s throw away. The smell of salt and seaweed hangs in the air and, as it gets dark, fairy lights twinkle all year round on the promenade. The ...

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