2023 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...

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 Judges, Lewis Dartnell. THE CHANGING WORLD  In Le...

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 ...

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 Shackleton Finse Polar Skills Challenge last year, t...

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 Shackleton Finse Polar Skills Challenge last year, t...

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 for the last two years. Here he talks to Rachel Hall...

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 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 ...

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 regions for the second year running. Here he talks t...

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, unsupported and unassisted.