You should read his biography by Fiennes. He held the Farthest South record, that is, got the closest to the South Pole, until Amundsen. https://en.wikipedia.

You should read his biography by Fiennes. He held the Farthest South record, that is, got the closest to the South Pole, until Amundsen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farthest_South https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farthest_South Robert Falcon Scott loathed him for it. Scott's last expedition used the route up the Beardmore Glacier through the Transantarctic Mountains that Shackleton pioneered. He succeeded even if he didn't reach the Pole.