Beardmore Glacier

As he points out, “no previous Shackleton biographer has man-hauled a heavy sledge load through the great crevasse fields of the Beardmore Glacier.”

Fossilised forewings from a pair of beetles were discovered on the 200km-long Beardmore Glacier, near the Transantarctic Mountains.

Glaciologists estimate it will be 60,000 years before the mouth of the enormous Beardmore glacier spits out those bones.

The team loaded 35 pounds of these fossils onto their already packed sleds and pushed off down the Beardmore Glacier.

He made up his mind that he would reach the plateau on which the Pole is situated by another route than that of Beardmore Glacier.