Director Glen Milner headed south to retrace the icy steps of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton—which the imperial traveller had first made during his 1914-1917 Trans-Antarctic Expedition. This original journey saw the historic Anglo-Irish pioneer traverse the harsh beauty of a deeply hostile, snow-bound terrain.

An unforgiving landscape emerges against the voice of British-born West, who reanimates the words of Shackleton—one of the world’s most distinguished explorers. Milner's film brings us face-to-face with a landscape of freezing waves, decaying ships, and rearing ice—an environment that remains unwelcoming to those humans who choose to cross it.