The great polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton never achieved his goal of traversing the continent of Antarctica, but is remembered these days for something more extraordinary. One hundred years ago, ...

When I had a chance to sign up for a 19-day trip to Antarctica trip aboard a Russian icebreaker last year, I did it in large part because we would be following in Shackleton's wake, through the ...

The accomplishment itself, a century ago, is among the most remarkable sagas of human survival in history. After their ship embedded in ice and later sank, 28 men survived in the Antarctic wilderness ...

In the photography world’s equivalent of an IMAX event, devotees are about to get a hyperdetailed view of one of exploration’s great survival stories. Beginning in 1914, the British explorer Ernest ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In one of the most epic stories in the history of polar exploration, Sir Ernest Shackleton and ...