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Lieutenant Colonel Henry Worsley, MBE (4 October 1960 – 24 January 2016) was a British explorer and British Army officer. Descended from Ernest Shackleton, he was part of a 2009 expedition that retraced Shackleton's footsteps in the Antarctic.

Worsley died in 2016 while attempting to complete the first solo and unaided crossing of the Antarctic.

www.shackletonfoundation.org
www.shackletoncentenary.org

Books by Henry Worsley

In Shackleton's Footsteps

Shackleton's descendants take on the expedition that defeated him in the most extreme Antarctic challenge known to man

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