Three men with links to Sir Ernest Shackleton have reached the South Pole. Lt Col Henry Worsley, from Hereford, Will Gow, from Kent, and Henry Adams, from Suffolk, arrived on Sunday. The team ...

When you ask people to name an explorer of the Polar Regions, many will name Robert Falcon Scott, who led a doomed expedition to the South Pole. Few will mention Henry Ernest Shackleton ...

One hundred years on from the death of the famous polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton ... Early explorers raced to be the first to reach the South Pole and to conquer the planet’s furthest ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s expedition ... person to cross Antarctica via the South Pole. But his hopes were dashed when ...

“Greetings, everybody,” he said on his broadcast. “When my hero Ernest Shackleton walked ninety-seven miles from the South Pole on the morning of January 9, 1909, he said he’d shot his bolt.

Shackleton’s main plan was to be the first team to cross the Antarctic Continent – to start on one side, cross the South Pole and continue to the other side. He gathered a top crew to join the ...

How do you do, Ollie? I’m Robert Falcon Scott. I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer ...

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Forgive me for starting with superlatives, but I have no choice. I’m not the first. In 1911, Roald Amundsen, the first explorer to reach the South Pole, wrote that the Queen Maud Range in ...

As wanderlust drives us toward increasingly off-the-beaten-path destinations, the number of passengers traveling on ...