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The Shackleton Foundation is pleased to announce that it has appointed Claudia Bradby as a new trustee.

A new biography of Sir Ernest Shackleton has been published: Shackleton – By Endurance We Conquer, by Michael Smith. It has been described as the first comprehensive biography of Shackleton since the 1980s and brings a fresh perspective to a compelling, charismatic …

As part of the Shackleton Foundation’s My Antarctic campaign I cycled a Brompton bicycle from London to Geneva via Paris last month. This was a solo journey of 650 miles or so (1000km) completed in one week using a Garmin sat nav …

Shackleton Foundation trustee, Tim Fright, is currently cycling from London to Geneva on a fold-up Brompton bike to raise money for the charity.He has written an update from the road:“Overall the going’s been good so far and I’ve been lucky enough to …

To mark the centenary of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition this year, the Shackleton Foundation is running the My Antarctic campaign. This campaign sees trustees of the Shackleton Foundation face their very own ‘Antarctic’, a personal challenge to overcome, in order to …

Friends of the Shackleton Foundation can receive 25% of a special edition of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ‘South’, featuring a foreword by explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.Bloomsbury have published this high quality collectors edition of South to commemorate the centenary of the Endurance expedition.To …