Ernest shackleton

It's 100 years since the great Antarctic explorer set out on his last voyage to the White Continent.

‘Each box was like the distillation of all that we have learned as a species about our bodies and their infirmities, a time capsule of medicine.’

David Grann writes about Henry Worsley’s solitary trek, which became a singular test of character.

Photograph of the bow and part of the left side of Endurance, lit by flashlight in the darkness of the night.This is probably Hurley’s best-known photograph, which he took with flashlights at -38 °F/-39 °C. It was later used on the front cover of Shackleton’s account of the expedition, South. Hurley described the scene in his autobiography: Never did the ship look quite so beautiful as when the bright moonlight etched her in inky silhouette, or transformed her into a vessel from fairy-land.

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition also known as the Endurance Expedition, is considered the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic

Learn how to lead like arctic explorer Ernest Shakleton

. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton , CVO, OBE (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figu...