SHACKLETON MEDAL 2025 - THE SHORTLIST

From an exceptional longlist, we are proud to reveal the eight individuals shortlisted for the 2025 Shackleton Medal. This year’s shortlist represents an equal balance of women and men, with expert...

“CRISIS AND ADVERSITY ARE NOT NEW; WE HAVE MET THEM BEFORE AND WE WILL MEET THEM AGAIN,” Ernest Shackleton

The first three years of the Shackleton Medal have revealed three extraordinary individuals continuing Shackleton's legacy at the poles. In this fourth year, we are very excited to announce the fel...

OFF GRID // MOROCCO SPRING 2025

There’s a moment, deep in the Agafay Desert, the horizon blurs, the high Atlas Mountains swallowed by sky, where the line between where you are and where you’re going ceases to matter. The sun drop...

I DO NOT WISH TO BE GOOD – AN INTERVIEW WITH SHACKLETON MEDAL JUDGE, WRITER SARA WHEELER

Sara Wheeler is the author of Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, two vivid, widely admired accounts of her time in the Antarctic and the Arctic. Here she talks about the beauty of ice cores, s...

The Vanishing North - An Interview with Shackleton Medal Judge, Sebastian Copeland

Explorer and photographer Sebastian Copeland’s images of the Arctic may look otherworldly – with their tilting cathedrals of ice, hypnotic light, and fractured seascapes that seem to stretch to inf...

Daring to do what scares me – an interview with filmmaker Natalie Hewit

Natalie Hewit  was the only film director on board the SA Agulhas II when the Endurance was discovered in 2022. Here she talks about her love of Antarctica, dealing with the dynamics of a ship, and...

An Ecologist’s Guide to Davos - Dr. James Grecian

This year Dr. James Grecian has been chosen as Arctic Basecamp’s Scientist in Residence. He has just returned from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he was invited to ‘speak sci...

Pioneer Programme - Martin Hartley Interview

Recently selected for the Shackleton Pioneers programme, Martin Hartley, an adventurer and acclaimed environmental photographer is known for his decades-long dedication to documenting the Arctic an...

Pioneer Programme - Louis Rudd Interview

The Shackleton Pioneer Programme brings together trailblazers from across the globe to share stories of resilience, adventure, and leadership. In this interview, we have the privilege of hearing fr...

Pioneer Programme - Levison Wood Interview

To mark the launch of the Shackleton Pioneer programme, Shackleton’s Amelia Steele interviews Levison Wood, the celebrated British explorer, author, and photographer. Levison is known for his remar...