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

Wreckage of Endurance How would Shackleton deal with the horrific tragedy unfolding in Los Angeles? Lead By Example: Many years after...

Ed. Note: Once they lost Endurance, Shackleton's main concern became his team's survival when breaking out of the ice. This account gives...

Editor's Note: Orde-Lees began his diary as an extended letter to his wife. This is one of those diary entries where that's particularly...

Frank Hurley's Journal - November 14, 1915 During the afternoon, Wild and I went for a walk to the wreck. We found the intervening ice...

Orde-Lees' Journal - November 14, 1915 Temperature +25 to 33. "Bother the thaw; one lives in a state of perpetually wet feet but, strange...

Image: Hurley and Shackleton at Ocean Camp Editor's Note: In this journal entry from Frank Hurley's journal, we catch a glimpse of what...

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

In the face disaster, nobody knew where they were, nobody was coming to find them, floating along on a disintegrating ice-berg,...

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...

Physicist Reginald James in a letter to a Shackleton biographer in the 1950s... "There was nothing of the nature of a set speech.  He...

Hurley rewrote many of the entries his journal at some point but, fortunately, the original was preserved. When I transcribed his...

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

The journal entries, the crew wrote after abandoning ship on October 27, 1915, are remarkable for the complete absence of panic - a...

“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...

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

Orde-Lees recounts Shackleton's outstanding leadership in the moment of crisis as the Endurance crew is forced to abandon ship. As...

Abandoning Endurance, October 27, 1915

Orde-Lees' Journal - October 24, 1915 In this journal entry, we see Shackleton, in a crisis, ahead of his team. #LeadingByExample "We had...

Orde-Lees Journal, October 23, 1915 Waiting, waiting, waiting, that is about all one can say each day if one were merely to write down...