The leather boot may have belonged to Frank Wild, Shackleton’s second-in-command. “These are priceless historic treasures,” Bound added. “They’re in amazing condition—it’s like the ...

Incredible.” Additionally, the scan revealed a lone boot that experts suspect belonged to Shackleton’s second-in-command, Frank Wild. Zooming out, the digital replica also offers insights into ...

Thus Ernest Shackleton spoke of Frank Wild, his friend and fellow explorer, whose ashes are soon to be laid to rest alongside Shackleton’s at the Whaler’s Graveyard in Grytviken, South Georgia ...

Shackleton was buried in the Grytviken cemetery, per sgmuseum.gs, on 5th March 1922, and a century later the ashes of Frank ...

In one, the plates used by crew are seen scattered across the deck, while another shows a boot that could have belonged to ...

Great Britain's Ernest Shackleton, Frank Wild, Eric Marshall and Jameson Adams begin their attempt to reach the South Pole. Only 112 miles from the Pole, in poor health and near starvation ...

Frank Wild, who hailed from the small village of Skelton, near Whitby, was the most decorated Polar explorer of the great heroic age and second in command to Ernest Shackleton on the ill-fated ...