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

Shackleton In the opinion of Shackleton's team, he was "the greatest leader who ever came on God's earth, bar none." Photographer Frank...

Photographer Frank Hurley and Shackleton at Ocean Camp Imagine being trapped on a melting ice floe with limited food supplies, no chance...

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NOTE: An unidentified person who knew Shackleton early in his career characterized the Boss as a "Viking with a mother's heart." In this...

Orde-Lees' Journal, November 24, 1915 Day by day goes by much the same as one another. We work; we talk; we laugh; we eat. Ah, we eat;...

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...

Orde-Lees' Journal - 22 November, 1915 Temperature minimum +18. Colder & a welcome change from the prolonged thaw. A moderate southerly...

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

Macklin's Journal - November 20, 1915 ... Tonight Hussey has been playing his banjo, and I sat in his tent a while enjoying the music. I...

Macklin's Journal - November 15, 1916 Today Sir E. read out a list of the duties of every individual in the party in case of an...

Macklin's Journal - November 14, 1915 ... Our greatest trial is the warm temperature and a fine mushy sleet which we commonly get, and...

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 become...

Orde-Lees' Journal - November, 8 1915 Temperature +12. The blizzard continued through the morning but cleared towards noon, & it was a...

Hurley and Shackleton outside their tent at Ocean Camp. NOTE: Hurley's journal entry on November 9, 1915 captures one of Shackleton's...

Worsley's Journal - November 7, 1915 Everyone is happy and contented and hopeful, if not confident, of the future.  Speaking for myself...

Physicist Reginald James on Shackleton's strategies for keeping up morale... He probably never made any deliberately planned steps to...

From South "Although keeping in mind the necessity for strict economy with our scanty store of food, I knew how important it was to keep...

Despite the enormous challenges they are faced with, the extraordinary team are making the best of things. #Leadership #Shackleton...

Frank Hurley describes how Shackleton led his team through the crisis: "When the ship broke up, Shackleton met the crisis with complete...