The great polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton never achieved his goal of traversing the continent of Antarctica, but is remembered these days for something more extraordinary. One hundred years ago, ...

When I had a chance to sign up for a 19-day trip to Antarctica trip aboard a Russian icebreaker last year, I did it in large part because we would be following in Shackleton's wake, through the ...

Married filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi specialize in stories about human tenacity against the forces of nature, putting them out at the indefatigable pace of about a film a year — ...

Shackleton famously reached the whaling station of Stromness on South Georgia in 1916 after spending 18 months stranded on Antarctica with his crew. The now-dilapidated Stromness Manager's Villa was ...

Growing up in the Falkland Islands, maritime archaeologist Mensun Bound was enamored with tales of adventure and stories of the sea. He was particularly taken with the saga of Ernest Shackleton, the ...

An expedition of shipwreck hunters has found the wreckage of the last ship of legendary polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The vessel, called Quest, was ...

In the photography world’s equivalent of an IMAX event, devotees are about to get a hyperdetailed view of one of exploration’s great survival stories. Beginning in 1914, the British explorer Ernest ...

More than 100 years after it was trapped and crushed by ice and sank in the Antarctic, explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, has been found in the chilly depths of the ocean. Here’s what ...

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 ...

The accomplishment itself, a century ago, is among the most remarkable sagas of human survival in history. After their ship embedded in ice and later sank, 28 men survived in the Antarctic wilderness ...