Explorer Fiennes (Cold) draws on his own experiences in Antarctica in this sympathetic if somewhat dry biography of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1921). Fiennes contends that Shackleton's ...

National Geographic gives an exclusive look at the wreck of Endurance, which has not been seen since it sank in 1915. Wednesday, March 9, 2022 More than a century after it sank off the coast of ...

The so-called Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration ran from the 1890s to the early 1920s. Its stars still burn brightly—perhaps especially so in our own gruesomely unheroic times—with Ernest Shackleton ...

Sometimes the greatest victories are hidden in defeats. Sir Ernest Shackleton wanted to be the first man to reach the South Pole, the first to cross Antarctica. He failed at both. “Shackleton, The ...

Over the years, physicians and historians have attributed Shackleton's failing health during his Antarctic expeditions to scurvy or a congenital heart defect. By studying other explorers and learning ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Earlier this month, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society discovered a historic shipwreck in the North West Atlantic. The expedition used sonar ...