Shackleton had lots of challenges to deal with among his team. Photographer Frank Hurley was a prima donna. Hurley was loud and...

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

"...the help and company of our leader might always be relied upon..."

Frank Hurley's Journal - November 13, 1915 At noon to-day the temperature rose to +33, with the result that the surface of the floe has...

Spotted on Xwitter a few days ago... Elon Musk: "The biggest mistake I made is to put too much of a weighting on somebody's talent and...

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...

Image from Orde-Lees' Journal, November 4, 1915 Editor note: It's always interesting to see two people's take on a situation such as, in...

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

Throughout the Endurance ordeal, Shackleton made sure everyone was treated equally so there could be no ill-feelings of favoritism....

“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...

Profiles of the Endurance crew.

Entries from Frank Hurley's journal provide a glimpse of life aboard Endurance , nine months after the ship was frozen in by the ice....

"Thus he gets the very best results out of all his staff."

Orde-Lees' Journal, October 10, 1915 "I was out sledging with Tom Crean today. ... Tom Crean is a fine character one of the most reliable...

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...

Shackleton's Endurance Expedition - The crew at Dump Camp after Endurance is crushed by the ice.

Frank Hurley's Journal, October 24, 1915 The floes which have been in motion during the afternoon, set in with great energy about 6 p.m.,...