Family Events at Discovery Space: STEM Parties, Hangouts, Marine Life & The Rivet

For many years we have enjoyed exploring remote regions of the world, mainly by bike. After several adventures exploring high altitude regions, we became interested in a winter bike trip. We quickly fell upon the heart of Siberia: Lake Baikal. It is well-known for outstanding natural beauty and for its surrounding high mountain ranges. Consequently, the region offering amazing scenery. The lake completely freezes over in winter and the locals use its surface as a winter road. This seemed idea

When Shackleton received word that war clouds had darkened over Europe in July 1914, he immediately dispatched a telegram to the Admiralty offering the services of his expedition crew and vessels. “There were enough trained and experienced men among us to man a destroyer,” he wrote in South, the story of his ill-fated 1914-1917 expedition across Antarctica. “Within an hour,” he continued, “I received a laconic wire from the Admiralty saying “Proceed.” Within two hours a longer wire came from

An expedition to climb in the mountains of Iraq is a rare opportunity and one that I figured would not come around too often. It was the Easter before my University finals but I certainly knew which to put first. Attempting Iraq’s highest peak, Cheekah Dar in the Zagros mountains of Kurdistan, certainly had priority over my degree at Newcastle University – it was only 10 days without revision! The expedition was run by Secret Compass, an expedition provider I had been working for part time d