Shackleton Challenges embody the enlightened leadership so central to the Boss’s own ethos, with empathy and encouragement at the core. The idea is that while all challenges will stretch us, none will defeat us. As in 1916, we come through as a team. Developed in association with our partners at Loughborough University and Science In Sport, our industry-leading Foundations programme ensures everyone reaches the start line equipped in body, mind and spirit to achieve their potential. Our in-field preparation is exemplary, our location scouting meticulous, our local relationships rock-solid – thanks in large part to the Shackleton lineage.

And while our guides come with record-breaking exploits behind them, they’re aware that central to Sir Ernest’s genius for keeping spirits up was the nightly “Party in the Ritz”, where the hold of the icebound Endurance was transformed into a genial forum for lively conversation, makeshift feasts and team cohesion. We’ve kept up the tradition. This contrast between hard-won daytime achievement and team-wide conviviality in the evenings is a distinctive feature of Shackleton Challenges that marks us out as different in kind.