``Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.'' So read the ...

In modern times, Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic expedition must rank as the greatest story never told. His disastrous quest to be the first to cross the frigid continent’s 1,500 miles with sled ...

This latest installment of the ongoing "Endurance" phenomenon is an engrossing documentary film version of Caroline Alexander's "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Adventure," the 1998 ...

I recently saw the IMAX film Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure, which uses a mixture of 85-year-old archive footage combined with modern reconstructions. Some scenes clearly showed a bicycle, but why ...

On Aug. 1, 1914, Irish-born British explorer Ernest Shackleton left London for what he believed would be "the last great polar journey of the Heroic Age of Exploration" -- the first transcontinental ...