The adventurer and author of Into the Ice recounts his harrowing attempt to sail the Northwest Passage and why he always ...

Fitzjames was part of an expedition led by Sir John Franklin that set out in 1845 from ... an Arctic ship route that links the Atlantic with the Pacific. But both ships became trapped in ice ...

Born in 1786, Franklin entered the Royal Navy at the age of 14. His first taste of exploration came in 1801-03, when he ...