Marking the Centenary Anniversary of Ernest Shackleton's 1909 attempt to reach the South Pole, artist and graphic designer Cedric Victor~DeSouza will join record-setting polar expert Mike Thornewill and a small team of novices , in December 2009, on a journey to reach the South Pole, beginning at the point at which Shackleton turned back.

Starting in December 2009 and through January 2010—in the highest, driest, coldest, windiest, emptiest place on earth, pulling two hundred pounds of supplies in -50ºF and winds of 75-80 mph—he and a small team of novices will make their way to the end of the earth.

In 1909, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton mounted the first significant attempt to walk across Antarctica to the South Pole. With companions Adams, Marshall and Wilde he reached the furthest point south achieved at the time. However, with food running short at latitude 88’23”S, roughly 100 miles from his goal, Shackleton was forced to make an immortalizing decision: Either turn back, or die.

Later he would tell his wife: "I thought you would prefer a live donkey to a dead lion." He had returned by the skin of his teeth, to leave the glory to Scott & Amundsen. But it was Shackleton who had found the way.