Journey culminates with two-day hike across mountains on South Georgia to mark 100 years since doomed Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Sheona York, a reader in the Kent Law School at the University of Kent and a solicitor for the Kent Law Clinic, has completed an epic journey retracing the journey of Sir Earnest Shackleton and his crew during the ill-fated Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1917.
Sheona, who lives in Canterbury, began her expedition by sailing from Ushuaia in Argentina on a Russian-crewed boat along with 10 other expedition staff to the Antarctic Peninsula. The group then took part in numerous climbs on the mountains there in order to prepare for the challenges ahead.
They traced the route that Shackleton and five of his crew were forced to take in order to seek help after their ship Endurance had become trapped, and then sunk, by ice.
This involved sailing across the Weddell Sea to Elephant Island and then on to South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean. Once there, Sheona was one of six members of the expedition selected to make a two-day traverse of the mountains on South Georgia to reach the port of Stromness, covering around 20 miles.
This followed the route Shackleton and his men took in order to reach a whaling station on the island so they could seek help to rescue the remaining 22 men left behind on Elephant Island.
Sheona is an immigration and asylum specialist and an accomplished rock climber and mountaineer with 30 years of experience amassed from climbing in the UK and across the world.