Drilling for Shackleton's well-chilled whiskey
Trailspace Blog — ... “It would be terrible to sample it and find that it was off,” he told Radio New Zealand. “I personally think they must have been left there by mistake, because it's hard to believe two crates would have been left under the hut without drinking them.” FYI, the expedition's main purpose is to carry out restoration work on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova hut, not to drill for whiskey. via NPR For more info: BBC, Telegraph, The Associated Press, Daily Mail Online (original 2006 ...

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Buster Wants To Fish —   They’re digging up Shackleton’s Whisky!!

In Search of Shackleton's Whiskey!
The Adventure Blog — ... has announced plans to recover two cases of McKinlay and Co whiskey that have been encased in ice in the Antarctica for more than 100 years. They were left there by famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton on one of his failed attempts to reach the South Pole at the beginning of the 20th Century. ...