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...

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...

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 ...

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...

THE SNOW PETRELS OF SVARTHAMAREN // JAMES GRECIAN

Dr James Grecian is an expert in the ecology of marine top predators. His research on the Arctic migration of harp seals was recently featured in BBC Frozen Planet II. He has just returned from Ant...

SHACKLETON MEDAL // MEET DAN SNOW

Historian Dan Snow has a lifelong fascination with Ernest Shackleton which makes him aptly placed to take up a position on the judging panel for the 2023 Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the ...

A CONTINENT OUT OF TIME // MAX LEONARD ON ANTARCTICA

Max Leonard is a Shackleton fan, a writer and author. He has written books about mountains, bunkers and cycling, among other things, and his next book, to be published later this year, is about ice...

Shackleton on the set of Fortitude

We sent our Endurance Parka into the Arctic Circle to the set of big-budget noir thriller Fortitude, the only British drama film shot on location in the Arctic.

What was in Rudd's 130kg pulk?

Following his successful traverse of Antarctica, we caught up with record-breaking polar explorer Louis Rudd to discuss what kit he packed in his 130kg pulk.