PEN HADOW // 2023 WINNER OF THE SHACKLETON MEDAL FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE POLAR REGIONS.
THE LATEST: Watch the Interview with Pen Hadow Record-breaking explorer, conservationist and campaigner Pen Hadow, has been awarded the Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions. L...
Read more2023 SHACKLETON MEDAL FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE POLAR REGIONS // THE LONGLIST
Shackleton is thrilled to confirm the longlist of nominees for the second Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions. There can only be one winner, but every one of our fifty-one entr...
Read moreSHACKLETON MEDAL // THE CHAIR OF JUDGES LEWIS DARTNELL
Ahead of the judging for the 2023 Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions, Rachel Halliburton sat down to interview the Chair of Judges, Lewis Dartnell. THE CHANGING WORLD In Le...
Read moreSHACKLETON 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 ...
Read moreJACOB VALHALLA MYERS // The Montane Yukon Arctic Ultra (MYAU) Part 2
This year Jacob Valhalla Myers is aiming to be the youngest person to ever walk to the South Pole S/U/U. Having started his polar journey on the Shackleton Finse Polar Skills Challenge last year, t...
Read moreJACOB VALHALLA MYERS // The Montane Yukon Arctic Ultra (MYAU) Part 1
This year Jacob Valhalla Myers is aiming to be the youngest person to ever walk to the South Pole S/U/U. Having started his polar journey on the Shackleton Finse Polar Skills Challenge last year, t...
Read moreSHACKLETON MEDAL // MEET KLAUS DODDS
Klaus Dodds, Executive Dean for the School of Life Sciences and the Environment at the Royal Holloway, has been a judge for the Shackleton medal for the last two years. Here he talks to Rachel Hall...
Read moreA 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...
Read moreSHACKLETON MEDAL // MEET SACHA DENCH
Adventurer and conservationist Sacha Dench – whose Flight of the Osprey project has just been broadcast on Radio 4 – made her name as the Human Swan when she flew from Arctic Russia to the UK with ...
Read moreSHACKLETON MEDAL // MEET SEBASTIAN COPELAND
Adventurer, photographer and climate advocate Sebastian Copeland is on the judging panel of the Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar regions for the second year running. Here he talks t...
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