+18 F was ideal weather from the Endurance crew's perspective. Cold enough that nothing was melting. This journal entry by Orde-Lees...

When Shackleton finally got back to London in mid-1917, he was asked to speak at a boy's school. He couldn't make it but he wrote back...

18 years before Endurance was trapped in the Antarctic ice, the Belgian ship, Belgica, was in the same predicament. But the contrast -...

In July 1915, Orde-Lees spent a few weeks in Shackleton's cabin recovering from a painful bout of sciatica. He used the opportunity of...

In 1955, Endurance physicist Reginald James wrote a letter full of fascinating insights on Shackleton's leadership to Margery Fisher... I...

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 the...

Dump Camp always makes me think of the wonderful Dava Sobel, author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter... "I recall the moment as...

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In the frantic days of trying to save the ship and then abandoning Endurance, Frank Hurley initially dashed off relatively brief entries...

Orde-Lees Journal, 28 October 1915 We had been asleep only one & a half hours when at 2:30 a.m. the floe split in half right through the...

Forty years after Endurance sank, physicist Reginald James wrote to Shackleton's biographer... “There was nothing in the nature of a set...

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

South... "Again the pressure began, and at 5 p.m. I ordered all hands on to the ice. The twisting, grinding floes were working their will...

Harry McNeish Journal, October 27, 1915 We have left the ship this afternoon as she is going to pieces fast the stern post broke this...

Frank Hurley's Journal - October 27, 1915 "Chips expects to complete the coffer dam tonight, and great hopes are entertained for its...

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South. Shackleton's account of the Endurance Expedition... “After long months of ceaseless anxiety and strain, after times when hope beat...

Shackleton's Endurance Expedition - The crew at Dump Camp after Endurance is crushed by the ice.

“I do not think there is any doubt that we all owe our lives to his leadership and his power of making a loyal and coherent party out of...

“He was a tower of strength and endurance, and he never panicked in any emergency. And he was the most generous man I ever came across.”...