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Shackleton Launches The World's First Expedition Grade Performance Jacket Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles Shackleton partners with NGO Blue Marine Foundation to launch the Antarctic Protector Parka, a world-first expedition-grade parka made from recycled plastic bottles LONDON, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Shackleton, in partnership with Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE), has developed the Antarctic Protector Parka, the world's first expedition-grade parka engineered from 100% recycled fabrics. Post-consumer plastic bottles have been recycled and repurposed to create the fully waterproof shel...

Passing 8,500 so we'll go another 4,000. you're going to see the main crater in just a second. >> anthony: the conditions endured by the first british antarctic explorers like scott, and shackleton and norwegian amundson and the lengths of time they endured them, are well, horrifying to imagine. they made their journeys in wooden ships, then man hauling equipment across glaciers, ice floes, mountains and frozen seas surviving on penguin meat when rations ran out. >> ryan: you might start to smell some sulfur. you smell it? >> anthony: yeah i smell that sulfur. what's our altitude now? >> ryan:...

You know have drills to practice extricating somebody. >> anthony: there's a steep learning curve to flying down here, skillfully handling gale-force winds, reduced control at high altitudes and the unpredictability of extreme turbulence around mountains and active volcanoes. >> ryan: slowly but surely climbing and it's minus 20 outside. >> anthony: erebus and that's -- >> ryan: mount terror. >> anthony: this is mount erebus, the southernmost active volcano on earth. antarctica was a great mystery for most of human history. only a theory, a great white space at the bottom of the world. >> ryan...

Crater in just a second. >> anthony: the conditions endured by the first british antarctic explorers like scott, and shackleton and norwegian amundson and the lengths of time they endured them, are well, horrifying to imagine. they made their journeys in wooden ships, then man hauling equipment across glaciers, ice floes, mountains and frozen seas surviving on penguin meat when rations ran out. >> ryan: you might start to smell some sulfur. you smell it? >> anthony: yeah i smell that sulfur. what's our altitude now? >> ryan: 13, two. >> anthony: about 22 miles from mcmurdo is cape royds, where...

Endured by the first british antarctic explorers like scott, and shackleton and norwegian amundson and the lengths of time they endured them, are well, horrifying to imagine. they made their journeys in wooden ships, then man hauling equipment across glaciers, ice floes, mountains and frozen seas surviving on penguin meat when rations ran out. >> ryan: you might start to smell some sulfur. you smell it? >> anthony: yeah i smell that sulfur. what's our altitude now? >> ryan: 13, two. >> anthony: about 22 miles from mcmurdo is cape royds, where a penguin colony of about 2000 breeding pairs live....