(McGraw-Hill, 1959 2015, Basic Books.) Lansing drew on diaries, other personal accounts, and interviews. “Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage” by Alfred Lansing. Here are a few classics that explore the 20-month saga of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, in which 28 men set out in 1914 to cross Antarctica only to see their vessel trapped, and crushed, by ice. The discovery of the wrecked Endurance, well preserved almost 10,000 feet down in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, brings that terrible voyage back to mind. The remaining men from the 'Endurance' were rescued in August 1916, with not one fatality.Īs part of the centenary celebrations, the Society will host a National meeting to mark the 100th anniversary of Shackleton’s historic, ill-fated and ultimately failed expedition to become the first person to traverse Antarctica.E-Pilot Evening Edition Home Page Close Menu In one of the boats, the James Caird, Shackleton and five crew spent a further 16 days crossing 800 miles of ocean to reach South Georgia and then trekked across the island to a whaling station to find help. In April 1916, once the temperature had risen and the ice began to break up, they set off again in three small lifeboats eventually landing on the barren, uninhabited Elephant Island. It is hard to write what I feel".Īfter 9 months of being trapped in the ice, experiencing regular blizzards and low temperatures, Endurance was eventually crushed and sank on 21st November 1915 – but the crew were able to escape. The 28 men of the expedition were now isolated on the drifting pack ice hundreds of miles from land, with no ship, no means of communication with the outside world and limited supplies. The task is to reach land with all the members of the Expedition.
After long months of ceaseless anxiety and strain, after times when hope beat high and times when the outlook was black indeed, we have been compelled to abandon the ship, which is crushed beyond all hope of ever being righted, we are alive and well, and we have stores and equipment for the task that lies before us. The temperature was -8.5☏, a gentle southerly breeze was blowing and the sun shone in a clear sky. On October 27th Shackleton wrote, "The position was lat.
However, in early 1915, Endurance became trapped in the ice of the Weddell Sea as the temperature dropped dramatically to -20oC, cementing the loose ice surrounding them together.
In 1914, Shackleton made his third trip to the Antarctic with the ship Endurance, with the aim of crossing the Antarctic from the Weddell Sea on one side to the Ross Sea on the other. He joined the merchant navy when he was 16, qualifying as a master mariner in 1898, keen to explore the poles. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish polar explorer who led the 1914-1916 'Endurance' expedition to the Antarctic. Image: Frank Wild and Ernest Shackleton with the crushed Endurance (Point Wild - by David Stanley from Nanaimo Canada, used under Creative Commons 2.0 Generic license.)
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