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Michael Palin joins Silversea to commemorate Shackleton centenary
TV personality Michael Palin CBE will join a special Silversea Expeditions celebration to commemorate the centenary of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition.
Palin will attend an historic event in London organised by Silversea Expeditions and the Royal Geographical Society on November 24.
The event is part of a celebration of Shackleton, which includes a series of voyages to Antarctica in 2015 and 2016.
Next month, to coincide with 100 years since the stricken expedition team endured 138 days in one of the most inhospitable places on earth, the first in a series of unique Silversea Expedition voyages will depart Ushuaia, Argentina, to retrace Shackleton’s journey to Antarctica.
Explorer and journalist Rebecca Stephens MBE, the first British woman to climb Everest and the Seven Summits, will be on Silver Explorer as part of the exclusive on-board enrichment programme providing an insight into her experiences while trekking in some of the most remote regions on the planet.
Continuing the centenary celebrations during November Silversea will host a unique Shackleton experience at the Royal Geographical Society headquarters, with Michael Palin CBE as guest of honour on November 24.
Guests booking on to Antarctica 18-day voyages in November, 2015, January, February and December 2016, will hear from distinguished historians onboard and visit iconic areas of the Antarctic including Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands where Shackleton and his crew were stranded for 105 days.
The Antarctica voyages will call at South Georgia, where Shackleton and five of his crew first touched land after crossing 13,000km of ocean. Guests will also be able to visit Shackleton’s burial site in Grytviken.
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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