After seven days in the boats, they landed on Elephant Island. Throughout their horrific ordeal, Shackleton had exhibited his usual...

Shackleton tells the story in South : Seeing Worsley taking a sun-sighting at noon, Shackleton "jumped into Worsley's boat in order to...

This entry from Orde-Lees Journal provides a picture of what the Endurance crew was doing to keep themselves productively busy during the...

Shackleton In the opinion of Shackleton's team, he was "the greatest leader who ever came on God's earth, bar none." Photographer Frank...

Photographer Frank Hurley and Shackleton at Ocean Camp Imagine being trapped on a melting ice floe with limited food supplies, no chance...

"Example is not the main thing in leading others. It is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer, Humanitarian #LeadingByExample

Wreckage of Endurance How would Shackleton deal with the horrific tragedy unfolding in Los Angeles? Lead By Example: Many years after...

This is an interesting example of how Shackleton modeled the attitude and behavior he wanted his crew to assume: Orde-Lees' Journal,...

Ed. note: Worsley captured Shackleton's leadership style in this one sentence. Shackleton led by example; he communicated effectively; he...

Orde-Lees' journal, December 2, 1915, "there are a good many of us only too anxious to come down again,"

"...the help and company of our leader might always be relied upon..."

Reginald James, physicist, writing in the 1950s... "He probably never made any deliberately planned steps to this end. His methods were...

Frank Hurley on Shackleton... “I always found him rising to his best and inspiring confidence when things were at their blackest.”

Meterorologist Leonard Hussey on Shackleton: “No one could know Shackleton and work under him without feeling that his great strength lay...

Able Seaman William Bakewell: “Very friendly and easy to talk to. As he acted as librarian he would ask me many questions & my opinion...

Image: Hurley and Shackleton at Ocean Camp Editor's Note: In this journal entry from Frank Hurley's journal, we catch a glimpse of what...

“To-night the temperature has dropped to –16 (degrees) Fahr., and most of  the men are cold and uncomfortable. After the tents had been...

Throughout the Endurance ordeal, Shackleton made sure everyone was treated equally so there could be no ill-feelings of favoritism....

Orde-Lees' Journal - October 30, 1915 "The order went forth that we should start the march at 3 p.m. and that we were to each carry only...

Physicist Reginald James in a letter to a Shackleton biographer in the 1950s... "There was nothing of the nature of a set speech.  He...