Shackleton Journal

SHACKLETON MEDAL // THE CHAIR OF JUDGES LEWIS DARTNELL

SHACKLETON 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 J...

Dan Snow on Endurance22 Expedition Credit: Saunders Carmichael-Brown

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 th...

JACOB 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 Sh...

JACOB 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 Sh...

SHACKLETON 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 fo...

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 b...

SHACKLETON 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 Swa...

SHACKLETON 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 re...

SHE WHO DARES // EXPEDITION UPDATE

British polar endurance athlete Wendy Searle has been forced to end her challenge to break the female South Pole world speed record, solo, unsuppor...

The man who made Shackleton’s last voyage possible

Dr Jan Chojecki is the grandson of John Quiller Rowett, who financed the Shackleton-Rowett (Quest) Expedition of 1921-22. He is a member of the ReQ...

100% STORMPROOF // A SHACKLETON GUIDE TO WATERPROOFING

Technical waterproofing has come a long way since the first parkas were invented by the Caribou Inuit to keep warm in the Canadian arctic. Learn ab...

SOUTH POLE WORLD SPEED RECORD ATTEMPT AIMS TO INSPIRE WOMEN OF ALL AGES TO DREAM BIG

Shackleton Expedition Manager, Wendy Searle, 45, from Monmouthshire, is aiming to become the fastest woman in history to ski solo, unassisted and u...

WHY GOOSE DOWN? // A SHACKLETON GUIDE TO INSULATION

Down is the first choice for Shackleton designers when it comes to insulation due to its unrivalled air trapping performance and packability. Insul...