Retracing the steps of Ernest Shackleton

Explorer Tim Jarvis and his crew have just set off on the exact route across the Antarctic taken by Irishman Ernest Shackleton in 1916, right down to a replica boat and equipment, he tells Danielle McGrane

THE outlook is bleak, the weather is abysmal and the economy is not getting much better. It’s at times like this the world needs a hero.

Someone who is willing to step outside of the every day, eschew the mundane and show us there’s much, much more to life.