Shackleton Centenary Expedition

An Antarctic expedition set out earlier this month along the route taken by Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1908-1909 journey, the Nimrod Expedition, where he got closer to the South Pole than anyone else had up to that time. The more famous Endurance Expedition was several years later.

The web site for the current effort is really interesting. Members of the expedition give daily audio reports, juxtaposed against Shackleton’s diary entries. The 2008 group is experiencing much better weather conditions than their forbearers.