Thinking of the personalities on the Endurance expedition reminded me of this quote from the great 20th century artist, Edward Hopper....

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

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

Hurley's Journal November 3, 1915 Latitude - 69, 35 S. Longitude - 51, 57 W. Construct an improved blubber stove, and place timbers under...

Worsley's Journal November 2 Tuesday 69° 7' 45" S   52° 5' W .7th night . It is now 8:20 p.m. and I have just finished all my days work...

Worsley's Journal November 1 Monday 69° 9' S   52° 0' W Sir E., Wild, Hurley & I reconnoitre to the N.W. as soon as it clears and find...

This drawing from Orde-Lees' Journal gives us an idea of what they were dealing with. Hurley's Journal - November 2, 1915 The teams ply...

Orde-Lees Journal, 2 November 1915 A fine day at last. Roused 6:30 a.m. and all took advantage of the sunshine to dry & air sleeping...

+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...

Frank Wild Alexander Macklin, surgeon on Endurance, meticulously kept an expedition journal that went down with the ship. The day after...

18 years before Endurance was trapped in the Antarctic ice, the Belgian ship, Belgica, was in the same predicament. But the contrast -...

In July 1915, Orde-Lees spent a few weeks in Shackleton's cabin recovering from a painful bout of sciatica. He used the opportunity of...

In 1955, Endurance physicist Reginald James wrote a letter full of fascinating insights on Shackleton's leadership to Margery Fisher... I...

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 the...

Dump Camp always makes me think of the wonderful Dava Sobel, author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter... "I recall the moment as...

Dump Camp Worsley's Journal. October 27, 1915 "The ship was not abandoned one hour too soon, for shortly after we had camped on the floe,...

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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...

In the frantic days of trying to save the ship and then abandoning Endurance, Frank Hurley initially dashed off relatively brief entries...