A single biscuit from Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctica ­expedition looks set to make a packet at auction. The Huntley and Palmers snack that stopped the explorer and his exhausted men starving to ...

Had Shackleton chosen to travel further, he could have been the first man to reach the South Pole. However, he chose the well-being of his crew over his target and turned back.

There was no map of the Antarctic in 1908 when the men of Shackleton's expedition set out for the South Pole. The unexplored continent was marked as "terra incognita" or land unknown and ...

A first for Shackleton, the South Pole Last Degree Challenge will see an intimate group of five people ski the last 60 nautical miles to reach the most southerly point on Earth.

The Discovery Expedition also included an early attempt to reach the South Pole. Shackleton accompanied Scott and Dr Edward Wilson on this journey and they reached a ‘Farthest South’ record of ...

Ernest Shackleton's thwarted bid to reach the South Pole in 1909 has inspired a team of like-minded souls to 'finish the task'. Former Army officer Richard Gray tells his friend Nigel Farndale why ...

A HUNDRED years ago this month, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and four teammates became the first men to reach the South Pole, arriving in triumph five weeks ahead of Robert Falcon Scott.

In the end, Shackleton and his entourage had reached 88°23' south, only 97 miles from the Pole. The expedition made many important scientific discoveries and set a record by coming even closer to ...

Shackleton never reached the South Pole and died of a heart attack in 1922 off South Georgia, a British overseas territory, during a fourth Antarctic expedition. The sled and flag were owned by Eric ...

In late 1914, Ernest Shackleton set out to achieve the first land crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea via the South Pole. In 1915, the Endurance was trapped by dense pack ice.

On the centennial of Shackleton’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, a middle-aged ex-army officer wants to make it there completely on his own.