Scientific expeditions rarely focus on only one subject. The Endurance22 voyage’s main goal to uncover the shipwreck of the long-lost Ernest Shackleton vessel Endurance was a success because it is now ...
Some islands feel as though they belong in adventure films – the kind where ships appear through mist, waves crash against jagged cliffs, and the audience wonders if anyone should be landing there at ...
The world today is smaller and less mysterious than when Endurance sank. At the same time, we know too much about the past to be nostalgic. By Jody Rosen Sometimes history speaks in rhyme. On March 5, ...
On the Origins of the Expedition: I’ve always been fascinated by Shackleton’s incredible journey of survival, but if there was one moment, it would have been when I completed a recreation of the ...
In Antarctica, the word “surreal” comes to mind endlessly. Gentoo penguins leap out of the water as I board a Zodiac next to my expedition ship. Brilliant morning sunshine glints off the snowy ...
Shackleton's grave in the whaler's cemetery at Grytviken, South Georgia, with his headstone engraved with a line from his favorite poet, Robert Browning ...
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