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

"Now our home was being shattered under our feet, and we had a sense of loss and incompleteness hard to describe." Shackleton...

Orde-Lees' Journal - November 21, 1915 "This evening as we were mostly taking it easy & reading we heard Sir Ernest call out, "She's...

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

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

Abandoning Endurance, October 27, 1915

Beginning of the end for Endurance

Worsley's Journal, November 23, 1915 The blasting of our Leader’s hopes and plans – at all events for this year – must be bitterly hard...

Dr. Macklin's Journal - November 10, 1915 Has turned very cold tonight. This afternoon Worsley and others had a clean out of the tent - a...

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Wild and Shackleton at the wreck The Boss writes in South... Human effort is not futile, but man fights against the giant forces of...

+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...

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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...

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...

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...

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

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