![]() ![]() Aching and freezing, the men bailed with buckets as they took on water. ![]() Waves of icy seawater pummeled their bodies. The crew faced icebergs, enormous swells, and gale-force winds. ![]() He and a five-person crew sailed their largest lifeboat, the James Caird, 800 miles over the planet’s roughest sea to the island of South Georgia. After they made it to tiny, uninhabited Elephant Island in spring 1916, Shackleton made the decision to go for help. By November 1915, his ship, the Endurance, had been crushed by sea ice and his crew of 27 were stranded on an ice floe. Members of Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition pull one of their lifeboats across the snow following the loss of the 'Endurance.' / Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesĪntarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton had started out in 1914 with a mission to be the first to cross Antarctica on foot. ![]()
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