In this activity, you are Sir Ernest Shackleton and your ship, the Endurance, has been frozen in the pack ice of Antarctica's Weddell Sea for nine months. It's clear that soon the Endurance will ...

Shackleton's expedition drifted with the ice for nearly two years. Facing hunger, loneliness, near-mutiny and what has come to be known as the greatest small-boat journey in history, this is their ...

That movie, in its way, cast an aesthetic maritime spell. "Endurance," the new NatGeo documentary about Shackleton's journey, is very good, but its tone is less poetic, more scientific.

A poignant memorial to polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton from his crew has gone on display in Dundee after a journey of more than 7,000 miles from the South Atlantic. Shackleton died in 1922 in ...