ALASSIO, Italy (voa) – The son of world-renowned Norwegian explorer and archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl says his father is near death after abandoning cancer treatment, and has set out on what he ...

Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his crew arrived in Polynesia after 101 days at sea aboard the Kon-Tiki raft on this day in history, August 7, 1947. Hyderdahl, along with five crewmen (and one ...

On April 28, 1947, an explorer began an ambitious ocean adventure.

OSLO, Norway -- Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian adventurer who crossed the Pacific on a balsa log raft and detailed his harrowing 101-day voyage in the book "Kon-Tiki," died Thursday night. He was 87.

FIVE-ELEVEN, BLOND, PERPETUALLY TAN, and full of scholarly exuberance, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl was a charismatic, controversial figure, and when he died of a brain tumor on April 18 at 87, a ...

In 1947, against the best navigational advice, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members set sail from Peru on a balsa wood raft to test his theory that ancient South American cultures ...

In 1947 the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl set sail from Peru on a balsa wood raft called Kon-Tiki. As he explained a few years later in the documentary of the same name, Heyerdahl was convinced ...

OSLO, Norway -- Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl sailed his Kon-Tiki balsa raft across the Pacific to prove a theory about ancient mariners, a team that includes his grandson plans to recreate the ...

A Norwegian team that includes Thor Heyerdahl's grandson is paddling across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to repeat the famed adventurer's journey aboard the balsa raft Kon-Tiki. Subscribe to read ...