“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.”...

Shackleton, South, October 25, 1915 "I scarcely dared hope now that the Endurance would live, and throughout that anxious day I reviewed...

Frank Worsley on Shackleton's Leadership: “Any and every duty is undertaken cheerfully and willingly and no complaint or whining is ever...

The Endurance crew was listening to a Sunday evening gramaphone concert when... Orde-Lees Journal, October 24, 1915 "...a terrific crash...

None of us are ever going to be stranded on an ice-floe but Shackleton's Endurance expedition is a metaphor for the challenges we all...

In mid-winter 1915, Orde-Lees had an attack of sciatica (generally pain in the lower back or leg). He was nursed back to health by...

Thomas Orde-Lees Orde-Lees began his journal as an extended letter to his wife and maintains the same chatty voice throughout the...

In 1995, on my way to Antarctica for the first time, I stopped by the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, NZ to take a look at...

This is another photo I took in the Scotia Sea in November 2000. It gives you a clear idea of what Shackleton and his crew were up...

If you're leading a discussion and want to encourage others to contribute their thoughts, suggestions and input, a good rule to keep in...

On his 1908 - 1909 Nimrod expedition, Shackleton wrote in his diary, "Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all." In other...

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