Here's a story that I stumbled upon, almost literally, when reporting a different piece for The Antarctic Sun several years ago.

It's about Ernest Shackleton and his crew who were thrilled to see their relief ship arrive at the coast of Antarctica after their failed attempt at the South Pole 100 years ago. So thrilled, in fact, that they left behind two cases of Scotch whisky stashed under their hut. Conservationists working on their hut found the wood crates a few years ago but couldn't free them from the icy ground. They're going back to Antarctica in January to try and extricate the booze.

Little known fact: I was at the hut a couple days after the crew found the whisky. They asked if I wanted to crawl under to check it out. Of course I did. Then we realized that since the conservation crew was all male, and Shackleton's crew was all male, I was the first woman to climb underneath Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds. That's my one proud Antarctic First.

My story in GlobalPost on the whisky posted this week. It's gotten more than 50,000 hits already, putting it among the top 10 GlobalPost stories of all time. I wrote a story on the same topic for Outside magazine that will run in their December issue. I'll post it when it comes out.