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

Dump Camp Worsley's Journal. October 27, 1915 "The ship was not abandoned one hour too soon, for shortly after we had camped on the floe,...

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Harry McNeish Journal, October 28, 1915 "we have everything about rady for the march which is 270 miles to the nearest known land over...

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...

Frank Hurley's Journal, October 26, 1915 "Extremely heavy pressure set in again opening planking 4 & 5 inches on the starboard side. ...

“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...

McNeish's Journal, October 24, 1915 "I dont know what Lat we are in at present but things looks a bit serious now I have built a coffer...

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