What’s It Like to Live at the Edge of the World?

There’s a settlement in Antarctica with a school, a post office and a huddle of homes. It’s like other sub-zero villages, except for one thing: families must have surgery to move in.

Beatriz Flamini liked to be alone so much that she decided to live underground—and pursue a world record. The experience was gruelling and surreal.

In a town where most ingredients need to be grown or painstakingly shipped in via bush plane, everyone’s invested in eating well.

Tagimoucia is so rare that it only grows on one of Fiji’s 330 islands, it’s found high atop a steep mountain ridge and it blooms for less than three months a year.

Elon Musk’s Starlink has connected an isolated tribe to the outside world — and divided it from within.

The Marubo people written about by The New York Times have been using the internet—and grappling with its implications—long before Starlink came to their village.

Robotic romance, ransoms, and raccoon suits at the South Pole.

For decades, the Old Forge was the holy grail of the British outdoors community. The UK’s remotest pub, it could only be reached via boat or a three-day walk through one of Britain’s last true wildernesses, the Knoydart peninsula in Scotland. A dispute between some locals and a new owner threatened the legend—until they decided to open up a pub of their own.

UK Antarctic Heritage Trust fills vacancy at world’s most southerly post office, as well as recruiting team to monitor wildlife and carry out building repairs.

E-commerce giants don’t reliably deliver to the remote islands of French Polynesia, so locals made their own online shopping service.

Documentary movie about life in Yakutia, the coldest inhabited region on Earth with the lowest recorded temperature -71°C (-95°F) and average winter temperatures of -50°C (-58°F).

Marsibil Erlendsdottir runs a farm and provides weather reports from a remote outpost in eastern Iceland. The job requires vigilance and an unfailing resolve.

How I came to feel at home in what some call the last wilderness on Earth—Antarctica.

Frozen in for nine months every year and located 800km from the next town, Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland, offers a fascinating glimpse at life at the edge of the world.

In Mexico, spelunkers are exploring what might be the deepest cave in the world.

Michael López-Alegría describes how he and his fellow astronauts kept from boiling over while they took in the beauty (and fragility) of Earth.