Discover the real story behind one of Britain's greatest triumphsOn the morning of 2 June 1953, the day of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, the first news broke that Everest had …
The age of exploration was drawing to a close, yet the mystery of the North Pole remained. Contemporaries described the pole as the ‘unattainable object of our dreams’, and the …
The age of exploration was drawing to a close, yet the mystery of the North Pole remained. Contemporaries described the pole as the ';unattainable object of our dreams', and the …
Ernest Shackleton is one of history’s great explorers, an extraordinary character who pioneered the path to the South Pole over 100 years ago and became a dominant figure in …
