In October and November 1999, NOVA journeyed into ice-choked Antarctic waters and onto the shores of rugged Elephant and South Georgia Islands as we followed in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton. This legendary explorer's 1914-1916 Endurance expedition is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. Then, in April 2000, we returned to document Shackleton's final trial - the crossing of South Georgia - by three of the world's most distinguished mountaineers, Reinhold Messner, Conrad Anker and Stephen Venables. Follow the expeditions as they unfolded in real-time on this Web site, and also watch for a NOVA Giant Screen Film Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure, as well as a NOVA program, "Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance", which originally aired on March 26, 2002.

NOVA Season 29 Episodes...

• s29e01 - Search For A Safe Cigarette
• s29e02 - 18 Ways To Make A Baby
• s29e03 - Secrets Of The Mind (aka Phantoms in the Brain)
• s29e04 - Sex: Unknown
• s29e05 - Russia's Nuclear Warriors
• s29e06 - Bioterror
• s29e07 - Life's Greatest Miracle
• s29e08 - Methuselah Tree
• s29e09 - Flying Casanovas
• s29e10 - Death Star
• s29e11 - Neanderthals On Trial
• s29e12 - Fireworks!
• s29e13 - Secrets, Lies And Atomic Spies
• s29e14 - The Missing Link
• s29e15 - Shackleton's Voyage Of Endurance
• s29e16 - Why The Towers Fell
• s29e17 - Fire Wars

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