SHACKLETON MEDAL 2024 - The Shortlist

Following a very lively debate at the Royal Geographical Society, chaired by Sunday Times bestselling author Lewis Dartnell, our panel of judges has decided on the shortlist for this year’s Shackle...

Searching for Polar Bears with Levison Wood

Levison Wood first seized the attention of millions when he walked the length of the Nile ten years ago. As the renowned explorer, photographer and writer joins the judging panel for the Shackleton...

SHACKLETON MEDAL 2024: THE LONGLIST

Once more, the longlist for the 2024 Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions reveals the extraordinary range of people working in the Arctic and Antarctic today. It includes scient...

EXPLORING LAKE UNTERSEE: JAMES GRECIAN

This Antarctica season Dr James Grecian was on expedition with fellow Durham University scientist Thale Damm-Johnsen to explore the mountains around Lake Untersee, the largest freshwater lake in ce...

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...