Friday 6th August 2010 the Swedish adventurer Fredrik "Fripp" Ericsson (35) died when he fell from K2 in the Himalayas. Fredrik Ericsson is a professional skier and mountaineer from Sweden, popularly called Fripp. His body rests at about 7000 meters, and now his parents have requested that it will be remained in the mountains he loved.

Google Earth played a role in the discovery of a new hominid fossil at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa. Researchers use of this software tool has resulted in several amazing disoveries in the previous years, and now a new discovery is done.

The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of species on Earth, was caused by an asteroid colliding with Earth and not massive volcanic activity, according to a comprehensive review of all the available evidence, published in the journal Science.

A team of paleontologists from Dinosaur National Monument, Brigham Young University, and the University of Michigan has announced the discovery of a new, large, plant-eating dinosaur, Abydosaurus mcintoshi, (pronounced Ab-id-o-saurus mak-in-toshi). The discovery is described this week in the on-line first section of the science journal Naturwissenschaften.

ExplorersWeb has covered hundreds of expeditions in 2009. "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare," said Mark Twain once. As the editor in ExplorersWeb writes 23rd December 2009: You might be surprised to find this quote in a place covering hard adventure. Yet real explorers know that true heroes own the full spectrum of guts. Who will be awarded this year?

On 21st January 2010 new polar history was written.Cecilie Skog and Ryan Waters successfully crossed Antarctica! In an interview ExplorersWeb did with Ryan Waters and Cecilie Skog, they say: “The mental part was the most difficult part”.

Today 21st January 2010 new polar history was written. Nearly a century after Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole in 1911, the Norwegian female Cecilie Skog, 35, and the American man Ryan Waters, 36, reached Ross Ice Shelf and made the first unassisted crossing of Antarctica.

Scientists found a pyramid buried under Egypt's sand. It`s a amazing hidden tresaure that hopefully will reveal more of the ancient history in the country.

The Vatican Archives is now available for insight. Some of the most preserved secrets are revealed. The most interesting information is found in a letter from Djengis Kahn grandson, Küyük, to Pave Innocent IV in Rome 1246. Küyük is not known as the most human person in the history, and he wanted to forced the pave to kneel for him.

Norwegian Jarle Traa, Jarle Trå, is on his way to ascend Mount Everest from its north side. He is well acclimated after climbing Elbrus twice. Jarle will do it in the way he did on Mount Everest earlier this year, from Shisha in 2006 and Cho Oyu in 2004: climb independent with no Sherpa and no supplementary oxygen support. It`s a risky attemp. Will Jarle make it?

Cecilie Skog travels with Ryan Waters. Together they represent the Antarctica Expedition team. Cecilie Skog and Ryan Waters started 13 November 2009 on their tour. Their goal is to ski from Berkner Island to the South Pole, a distance of 1,350 km (838 miles) over a period of 50 days.

The newly found dinosaur species roamed the Earth about 200 million years ago. Scientists believe it can explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land. Could this find be a missing evolutionary link?

Billionaire owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich, has had to give up an attempt to reach the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa. The 42-year-old Russian oligarch was carried down to safety after suffering breathing problems on his attempt.

Swedish divers found recently a huge old shipwreck in the fjord near the Swedish capital Stocholm. The ship was from Holland, used for trading, featuring rich ornament, and from the 1600 century.

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. It was handwritten for over 1600 years ago. The manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. An international collaboration has now reunited the entire manuscript in digital form and made it accessible to a global audience for the first time.