Antarctic: Exhibition recalls Ernest Shackleton’s final quest
It’s 100 years since the great Antarctic explorer set out on his last voyage to the White Continent. …
“I guess today technology makes everything so easy. We can go to space, we can go to the bottom of the ocean, we can go to the South Pole. But for Shackleton, these were all unknowns. They didn’t have the technologies. And so for lots of people there’s this romance to what Shackleton did and to the idea of the wilderness that doesn’t really exist anymore.”