1950s. One of the souvenir hunters was an unnamed member of Operation Deep Freeze, the American military mission that set up a presence on the continent in 1955. He took the skis and other items from the hut in 1957 when the American expedition became...

Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei in 1564; inventor Cyrus McCormick in 1809; jeweler Charles Tiffany in 1812; feminist pioneer Susan B. Anthony in 1820; Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elihu Root in 1845; British philosopher and mathematician Alfred...

January 29, reviewing the exhibition The Heart Of The Great Alone at Buckingham Palace, we said Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-17 Antarctic expedition was aboard the Endeavour. In fact, the ship was the Endurance. Last week we said Amy Childs from The Only...

One of the souvenir hunters was an unnamed member of Operation Deep Freeze, the American military mission that set up a presence on the continent in 1955. He took the skis and other items from the hut in 1957 when the American expedition became one of...

Ernest Shackleton knew, nothing is more essential for an epic expedition than good Scotch. Unlike the intrepid Antarctic explorer, however, the Walking With The Wounded team attempting to scale Everest this year on behalf of the military charity won't...

1914, Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set out to explore the South Pole. At the time, Antarctica must have seemed forbidding and inviolate: A realm of perpetual ice, and nature at its most primal. The men were left at the mercy of the elements...