The recent discovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has thrust his epic tale of Antarctic survival into the limelight once again. The story still resonates with readers more than a century ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Not all shipwrecked treasure glitters. Some’s frozen where nobody dares to look.” A twinkle in his eye, marine archaeologist ...

Legend has it that Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton posted an advertisement in a London paper before his infamous Endurance expedition: “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, ...

During the "Heroic Age of Exploration," the period in which Shackleton's 1914-1916 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition took place, Antarctic expeditions often became ordeals of suffering. At ...

The world today is smaller and less mysterious than when Endurance sank. At the same time, we know too much about the past to be nostalgic. By Jody Rosen Sometimes history speaks in rhyme. On March 5, ...