Shackleton Medal Judge Pirita Näkkäläjärvi on the Sámi Greta Thunberg

Shackleton Medal judge Pirita Näkkäläjärvi is the recently elected President of the Sámi Parliament in Finland. Here she talks to Rachel Halliburton about strong Sámi women, the importance of the o...

John Geiger: The Third Man Factor And The Shackleton Medal

John Geiger is Chief Executive of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) and the internationally bestselling author of seven books, including The Third Man Factor. As he joins the judging p...

Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End // Darrel Bristow-Bovey

Author, columnist and screen-writer, Darrel Bristow-Bovey was born in Durban, South Africa and educated at the University of Cape Town where he studied under J.M. Coetzee and Andre Brink. He curren...

Expedition Equipment Edit // The best hardware from the best manufacturers selected by Rhodri Lewis

Shackleton’s quartermaster. Rhodri Lewis has spent the past twenty years as an expert equipment coach, helping to equip some of the world’s most extreme expeditions, including all Shackleton Challe...

Antarctic Fire Angels // Post Expedition Journal

This Antarctic season Georgina Gilbert and Rebecca Openshaw-Rowe became the first 999 emergency services team to ski to the South Pole. The two firefighters took on a 1230km route from Union Glacie...

Sir Ranulph Fiennes on Courage, Leadership and the link between Shackleton and Lawrence of Arabia

Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been an honorary judge for the Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions since it was established in 2022. A long-term admirer of Shackleton, he talks to Rach...

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...