The fabled expedition of Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who led 27 men on a voyage to Antarctica in 1914 aboard the three-masted barquentine schooner Endurance, only to see his ship sink ...
Legend has it that Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton posted an advertisement in a London paper before his infamous Endurance expedition: “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, ...
Married filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi specialize in stories about human tenacity against the forces of nature, putting them out at the indefatigable pace of about a film a year — ...
Adventurer Tim Jarvis will lead a team of six on what would be the first authentic re-enactment of Shackleton's historical journey across the Antarctic. Now we turn to Antarctica, where an expedition ...
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Antarctica is powerful not because it is extreme, but because it feels untouched. Following the routes of Scott and ...
Ernest Shackleton was sailing for Antarctica on the ship, called the Quest, when he died in 1922. Researchers exulted over the discovery of its wreckage, 62 years after it sank in the Labrador Sea. By ...
Relative of legendary polar explorer Ernest Shackleton fulfills family dream. Feb. 9, 2010— -- When Navy Commander Scott Shackleton stepped off a C-130 aircraft and set foot on the South Pole ...
Tim Jarvis’s Plan to Cross the Antarctic in an Exact Replica of the James Caird K. Annabelle Smith The original lifeboat, the James Caird, built in 1914, had an open top, exposing its inhabitants to ...