Shackleton pair battered by wild weather

By Rachel Olding
Updated February 11 2013 - 9:13am, first published 3:00am
Sheltered from blizzards ... Tim Jarvis.
Sheltered from blizzards ... Tim Jarvis.

JUST hours from the finish line, a group of adventurers recreating Shackleton's epic journey across the Antarctic were almost derailed by a blizzard that threatened to kill them over the weekend.