The Shackleton Expedition Theme Week+

Antarctica’s Heroic Age

2 Comments / History /

Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /home/u447616170/domains/themountainsarecalling.earth/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-word-count/public/class-wpwc-public.php on line 123
This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series The Shackleton Expedition Theme Week+

Antarctica’s Heroic Age During the Age of Exploration, which occurred roughly between the 15th and 18th centuries, humans believed a gargantuan continent covered most of the Southern Hemisphere. This landmass was known commonly as Terra Australis, Latin for “Southern Land.” The impetus for this notion did not arrive thanks to direct evidence of a massive […]

Antarctica’s Heroic Age Read More »

Fortitudine Vincimus

1 Comment / History /

Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /home/u447616170/domains/themountainsarecalling.earth/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-word-count/public/class-wpwc-public.php on line 123
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series The Shackleton Expedition Theme Week+

Fortitudine Vincimus     When Part I of our tale completed, the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration neared a conclusion. Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott had successfully reached the South Pole. Veteran Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, who had attempted to reach the pole, vibrantly declared that achievement did not end the era of investigation

Fortitudine Vincimus Read More »

Third Man Factor

2 Comments / Science, Bizarre /

Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /home/u447616170/domains/themountainsarecalling.earth/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-word-count/public/class-wpwc-public.php on line 123
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series The Shackleton Expedition Theme Week+

Third Man Factor   Who is the third who walks always beside you?When I count, there are only you and I togetherBut when I look ahead up the white roadThere is always another one walking beside youGliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hoodedI do not know whether a man or a woman—But who is that

Third Man Factor Read More »

Endurance

Leave a Comment / History /

Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /home/u447616170/domains/themountainsarecalling.earth/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-word-count/public/class-wpwc-public.php on line 123
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series The Shackleton Expedition Theme Week+

Endurance   We recently studied the Heroic Age of Antarctica, which featured major exploratory achievements and set the stage for Ernest Shackleton’s extraordinary tale of survival after the sinking of his ship, the Endurance. That account included a supernatural visitor during a treacherous trek across uncharted mountains. Researchers have since coined this phenomenon the Third Man

Endurance Read More »