HX Expeditions has been leading adventure travel trips since 1896 and has more than 20 years of experience operating in ...

A Scottish island with a derelict castle has been put up for sale for the first time in eight decades. Shuna, a 1,100-acre ...

Nearly six years later, as he prepared for another expedition to Antarctica, Shackleton would die of a heart attack on South Georgia. He was buried there on March 5, 1922.

Antarctica is a harsh continent, which in both history and fiction can trigger disturbing behavior and even madness.

I’ve wanted to travel to Antarctica since before I was a professional travel journalist. Fascinated by the tales of Shackleton, Byrd and Scott, I wanted that sense of discovery of a wild, untamed ...

He set the record on January 7, 2024. Kylleso, who is just 5 feet tall and weighs 106 pounds, pulled a sled weighing 100 kilos, or twice her weight, in her bid to reach the pole. In a November ...

As you walk into Shackleton’s London store, you will see a range of gilets, parkas and puffer jackets. You will also notice maps, books and a portrait of the Irish explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Anglo Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, second from left, onboard the vessel Nimrod upon its return voyage from the British Antarctic Expedition after reaching a point 97 miles from the South ...

South Korean mountaineer Youngmi Kim is also attempting a crossing this season. In 2023, she ski ed to the South Pole from Hercules Inlet in 50 days. This year's solo expedition will follow the ...

The expedition made many important scientific discoveries and set a record by coming even closer to the South Pole than before. The success of the expedition earned Shackleton a knighthood on his ...

THE shipwreck from Ernest Shackleton’s doomed Antarctic expedition in 1914 has been revealed in new detail through 3D scans. The 144-foot-long sunken Endurance ship has been hidden under ice … ...

Ernest Shackleton was born in County Kildare, Ireland, in 1874. In 1901, alongside explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he got closer to the South Pole than any other European explorer.