“Chasing Shackleton” (PBS, Wednesdays). Complex in ways that were possibly not intended, this engrossing three-part documentary follows British adventurer Tim Jarvis as he seeks to re-create the ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT Six British explorers set out to re-create Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's famed 1914-16 expedition -- his boat crushed by ice, he was forced to cross open seas in a small boat ...

Can six men endure Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic rescue mission today? Using a replica boat, and the same equipment and clothing as would have been used in 1914, explorer Tim Jarvis and his crew ...

Adventure is hard to come by. Well, let’s rephrase that: Real adventure is hard to come by. The sort they write books about. The sort that tests the limits of your body and soul. The sort that will ...

The so-called “heroic age” of polar exploration lasted from the tail end of the Victorian era until the outbreak of World War I. When we consider this period’s doughty adventurers, none speaks more ...

One hundred years after Ernest Shackleton's failed attempt to cross the Antarctic by ship, Australian adventurer Tim Jarvis set out to recreate the expedition and rescue mission which left members of ...

“Chasing Shackleton” by Tim Jarvis. An Australian adventurer resolves to recreate Ernest Shackleton’s storied Antarctic rescue mission, battling bitter winds, trench foot, and PBS camera crews along ...