Shackleton famously reached the whaling station of Stromness on South Georgia in 1916 after spending 18 months stranded on Antarctica with his crew. The now-dilapidated Stromness Manager's Villa was ...

One of the world's leading polar explorers, Larsen has touched the South Pole and the North Pole six times each. He's also the only person to journey to both and Mount Everest in the same year. Had he ...

Polar explorer and teacher Ann Bancroft was 10 years old when she first read "Endurance," the gripping account of Ernest Shackleton and his crew, who in 1915 were trapped in the Antarctica and ...

The lost ship of Ernest Shackleton, the British-Irish polar explorer who attempted and failed to become the first person to cross Antarctica via the South Pole between 1914 and 1916, has been found ...

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Crested Butte, Colorado — Eric Larsen lives for adventure. One of the world's leading polar explorers, Larsen has touched the South Pole and the North Pole six times each. He's also the only person to ...