New research from Cambridge re-examines the famous sinking of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance — and contradicts the long-standing explanation of what sank her.

THE SHIP BENEATH THE ICE: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance. By Mensun Bound. Mariner Books. 416 pages. $35. That old proverb your mother taught you — “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try ...

A black and white film negative of Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic winter flashlight scene in the Weddell Sea, showing Endurance stuck fast. Credit: Library of Congress There are few stories ...

A team of explorers is currently attempting to locate the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance on what would have been the famous Irish explorer's 148th birthday. A research vessel left Cape ...

Endurance, the wooden ship that Ernest Shackleton took to Antarctica in 1915, wasn't built to withstand frozen seas – and the famous explorer knew it ...

There’s big news from the bottom of the world: Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, has been discovered 100-plus years after it sank. In 1915, Shackleton, the famed Irish-born explorer of the ...

On Oct. 27, 1915, after being caught and crushed by packed ice for nine months in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica, Ernest ...

The lost ship of Victorian explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton can be seen in incredible detail for the first time. The Endurance sank in 1915 and lies 3km (1.8miles) below the surface at the bottom of the ...

More than a hundred years after Ernest Shackleton’s famous Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition, a new exhibition showcases some of the most iconic and rare images ever taken of the most southerly ...