``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 ...

The great British explorer Ernest Shackleton is very hot these days — in marked contrast to how he and his hardy band felt during their 1914-1916 expedition to Antarctica. The “most glorious failure” ...

After earning high marks on the fest circuit with "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition," helmer George Butler now offers a kind of big-ticket, mass-audience companion piece to ...

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 ...