Editor's Note: This is one of the Bible passages that Shackleton took with him when they abandoned Endurance . The Lord is my shepherd. I...

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

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...

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...

"Safe tell Mother." FBM meant to send this cablegram to his Sweetheart, Alice "Allie" Price, but in his haste, he put down his parents's...

On November 11, 1918, my grandfather, Frank B. Morrell, wrote the following letter from Verdun to his "sweetheart," my grandmother in...

When Shackleton abandoned Endurance , he took the Bible Queen Alexandra had given the expedition and, with a penknife, he carefully...

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...

Hurley's Journal - November 8, 1915 "Pay the final official visit to the wreck with the chief and Wild. Yesterday's mild blizzard has...

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

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....

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...

Leading like Shackleton

"Difficulties are just things to overcome." Shackleton