Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

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the Assault boot helped the British Everest Expedition be the first to conquer the world's highest peak. The boots were designed for use at an altitude of above 20,000 ft. Without such equipment ...

Anyone on a British expedition to Antarctica or taking a British vessel or aircraft into Antarctica will need to apply for a permit from the Polar Regions Department of the Foreign, Commonwealth ...

Sir Robert Napier led the British army to victory at the highland fortress of Magdala, where Tewodros killed himself and the ...

In 1924 a British expedition was poised to make that claim. At the time of their first Everest attempt, in 1921, no climber had ventured above 24,600 feet. It was unclear whether climbers could go ...

The second is to support British people going on innovative high- level mountaineering expeditions. Further information about this is outlined below. Expedition leaders are expected to submit a ...

The British Expedition to Abyssinia meets Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia - ALAMY The African nation will need to persuade unit veterans and serving officers who oversee museums dedicated to ...

that 1,300 women applied to join a proposed British expedition in 1937. All were denied, she tells 100 Women. Russian geologist Maria Klenova was the first woman to conduct research in the ...

The cannibalised skeletal remains of a member of the doomed 1845 British Arctic expedition have been identified as that of ...

All but forgotten back home in Britain, Shackleton's expedition drifted with the ice for nearly two years. Facing hunger, loneliness, near-mutiny and what has come to be known as the greatest ...