Built to conquer Antarctica in 1939, the Snow Cruiser was a bold symbol of innovation—yet its promise melted away in the face ...

Discover the story of the Antarctic Snow Cruiser, a massive machine built to explore the frozen continent—but doomed by poor ...

The relatively unknown yet memorable Antarctic Snow Cruiser is a vehicle designed especially for the purpose of exploring Antarctica. Built between 1937 and 1939, it was commissioned specially for ...

The Antarctic Snow Cruiser Thomas Poulter wasn’t just inspired by his American identity when he first pitched his idea to the Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago ...

At a cost of $150,000, the Snow Cruiser seemed to represent the ultimate Antarctic outpost, fully self-contained and mobile. It could house a half-dozen explorers.

While the snow cruiser was turning into a punch line, Byrd’s Antarctic expedition was serious business, the first time in 100 years that the U.S. had financed an official survey of the continent.

Normally, when planning an expedition to Antarctica, you might look for a beefy vehicle for wandering the great wasteland of snow and ice. Something like the building-size Antarctic Snow Cruiser ...

The Antarctic Snow Cruiser was, in essence, a massive RV designed to allow a crew of five people to survive the frigid land’s extreme conditions for more than a full year while it explored ...

The vehicle, called the Snow Cruiser,is to be used as a mobile base, and it is reported to be capable of travelling across ice fields, of climbing gradients of 35 per cent, of sliding down them on ...