The gripping story is reconstructed from the survivors’ diaries and ships logs. Within three months all of the crew members had been rescued. However, to reach civilization, Shackleton and two others still had to cross a perilous icy mountain range.
Shackleton and a small crew then sailed one of the boats across the 650 miles across the treacherous Drake Passage to South Georgia island, where a whaling station was located. Using three small boats from the Endurance, the crew took to the sea and found temporary safety on a small island. Eventually they had to slaughter and eat the dogs. The crew had to camp on the ice for a year, gradually drifting northwards and subsisting on sled rations, seals and puffins. The company ran into trouble almost right away when their ship ‘Endurance’ became stranded in pack ice just off the coast and was subsequently smashed by the moving ice flows. Just before the outbreak of the First World War, gung-ho polar hero Sir Ernest Shackleton led a possibly foolhardy expedition to cross the Antarctic continent by dog sled. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Ī very British story of heroic failure that turned out to be a triumph of leadership and fortitude. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.
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