"Three cheers for the dogs" -- A compass pointing south -- The empire's mapmaker -- In Challenger's wake -- Taking the measure of men -- March to the penguins -- Discovering a continent's past -- The ...

The TV explorer, 49, said that after racing to the pole in 2008 wearing modern equipment, he wants to experience ‘the harsh wilderness’. Sign Up and be kept in the loop each and every day with our ...

Roald Engebreth Gravning Amundsen of Norway took pride in being referred to as "the last of the Vikings." A powerfully built man of over six feet in height, Amundsen was born into a family of merchant ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I just started teaching my spring classes, ...

AT the present time it is not unlikely that the south pole has been reached by both Captain Scott and Captain Amundsen, who are leading respectively British and Norwegian Antarctic expeditions. The ...

If last weekend’s BBC2 documentary about Scott’s Hut and his adventures in Antarctica has stirred the explorer in you, then why not follow in his and Ernest Shackleton’s footsteps and visit this ...

In recent years the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton has become a posthumous self-help guru; books like “Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Lloyd Spencer Davis SHACKLETON The Biography By Ranulph Fiennes Here is a test. Scott, Shackleton ...

The South Polar Times: Shackleton and his crew kept logs of stories about their expeditions, which they later turned into a three-volume book. This one was inscribed by Captain Robert Falcon Scott to ...

Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance was crushed by Antarctic ice in 1915. Now, a team of researchers is heading to the Weddell Sea where it went down. By Henry Fountain A century after Ernest ...

This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton made four expeditions to Antarctica in the early 20th century, failing in many of his objectives but becoming ...

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 ...