Welcome at National Geographic UK Magazine August 2023 issue

WHEN I WAS A BOY, I couldn’t read enough about polar exploration. Robert Peary, Sir Edmund Hillary, Sir Ernest Shackleton—the tales of these explorers and their crews, battling the elements and the odds in the Arctic and Antarctic, were filled with such drama and pathos that I was transfixed. And I’m still an enthusiast, not only of the stories but also of the regions they explored, places both captivating in their beauty and of critical importance for what they tell us about the ways climate change is affecting our planet.
National Geographic UK Magazine August 2023 Issue cover story is its own odyssey of Arctic exploration. In the mid-19th century, Sir John Franklin led a crew of 128 men from England in search of the elusive Northwest Passage, a sea route through Arctic waters linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
After Franklin’s two ships became trapped in ice, the men eventually made it to shore, but to the best of our knowledge, none survived the expedition. The mystery of what befell Franklin and his crew still intrigues many. That includes writer Mark Synnott and photographer Renan Ozturk, who boarded Synnott’s sailboat in Maine last summer to trace the expedition’s route on a quest to learn what happened.
Navigating the Northwest Passage is easier now than in Franklin’s day— in part because of warming waters, sadly—but Synnott and Ozturk found it’s still a difficult, dangerous journey. You won’t want to miss their story, which is also the subject of Explorer: Lost in the Arctic, a documentary that will premiere August 24 on National Geographic and stream the next day on Disney+ and Hulu.
We hope you enjoy the issue.

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