FROM THE PEAK OF THE ANDES TO THE POLAR WILDERNESS

Shackleton Director of Expeditions, Louis Rudd and Expeditions Manager, Wendy Searle summitted Aconcagua - the highest peak in all of the Americas and the highest mountain outside of the Himalayas ...

A YEAR IN SHACKLETON CHALLENGES // A Note from Co-Founder Ian Holdcroft

To mark the close of 2023 Shackleton Co-Founder, Ian Holdcroft has penned a journal. With huge strides made for Shackleton Challenges across the world and with plenty of new developments for 2024 t...

SHACKLETON IN THE HIMALAYAS // Louis Rudd x Royal Enfield

Shackleton Director of Expeditions, Louis Rudd and Expeditions Manager, Wendy Searle recently returned from the Himalayas where they were invited by Royal Enfield to celebrate the launch of their n...

Antarctic Fire Angels // Pre-Expedition Journal

This month Georgina Gilbert and Rebecca Openshaw-Rowe will embark on an expedition to Antarctica. Four years in the making, the two firefighters will take on a world first route from Union Glacie...

YOUNGEST TO POLE // PRE-EXPEDITION JOURNAL

In under a month Jacob 'Valhalla' Myers, an intrepid polar enthusiast and Shackleton Guide, is set to embark on his attempt to become the youngest person in history to complete a solo, unsupported ...

LIVE COURAGEOUSLY

THIS SEASON’S QUEST STARTS HERE August 30th marks the anniversary of the rescue of the crew of the Endurance without a single life lost. It is the moment in Shackleton’s life that definitively sea...

SHACKLETON IN CHAMONIX // "Adventure takes us to a place where life is precious and death is close"

The Shackleton Challenges team recently returned from a two-week stint in the home of mountaineering, Chamonix. Here, Director of Expeditions, Louis Rudd MBE reports on a successful Alpine Skills C...

YOUNGEST TO THE POLE // JACOB MYERS EMBARKS ON A HISTORIC SOLO EXPEDITION TO THE SOUTH POLE

Montana, 4th August 2023 – Jacob Myers, an intrepid adventurer and polar enthusiast, is set to take on a remarkable challenge as he attempts to become the youngest person in history to complete...

'SVALBARD PEOPLE' // THE NORTHERN MOST PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD

Photographer and writer, Graeme Chesters has a special research interest in the High Arctic. In 2020 he won AP magazine’s Rising Star Award for his work documenting change in the Arctic and was inv...

NOTES FROM ROTHERA // HOW SEALS INDICATE THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN ANTARCTICA

Dr Connor Bamford is a marine ecologist based in the UK with a passion for ffurthering marine conservation in the polar regions. He and a multinational team of scientists have embarked on the first...