There was an Irish strain in him and he was full of imagination. He could see the whole thing accomplished, and he never admitted defeat....

Perhaps the most remarkable thing that may at once be said of him is that, unlike most people, there is no underside to his character....

There was nothing in the nature of a set speech. He spoke to us in a group, telling us that he intended to march the party across the...

“In the long winter months, when the scientists toiled in darkness and cold at their routine tasks outside, the help and company of our...

“No one could know Shackleton and work under him without feeling that his great strength lay in the honesty of his selflessness. Men...

“I always found him rising to his best and inspiring confidence when things were at their blackest.” Frank Hurley, photographer, Endurance

And a nice retelling of Shackleton's Story. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/2020/03/returning-from-south-atlantic-expedition-to...

Shackleton was no pushover as Dr. Macklin recounts in his 1956 interview with biographer James Fisher. In this section of the interview,...

Shackleton was knighted and feted all over the world for the extraordinary accomplishments of his 1907 - 1909 Nimrod expeditions. He had...

“… and until recently, he had been little remembered since his death.” For Shackleton, the Endurance expedition was a disaster. Yet, it's...

As we struggle through this current crisis, it's easy to default into thinking about the inconveniences and annoyances we're dealing with...

“Not only the main problem but its details absorbed him. Food, how to get it, how to eke out our slender stock of preserved food to give...

"Life to me means the greatest of all great games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a...

Perhaps you saw me mention on LinkedIn that while sorting out my Shackleton files recently, I realized I haven't read Shackleton's Way...

Since the publication of Shackleton's Way in 2001, the question I find myself asked most often is, how did you get so interested in this?...

Picture 28 haggard, exhausted men standing on an ice-floe. They are hundreds of miles from civilization. There is no hope of rescue. They...

As the crew abandoned Endurance, the worst pessimist on the expedition recorded in his diary, "... we are wrecked ... but not beaten."

Leading By Example; Communicating Effectively.