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

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

In 1903, the Yankees were known as the New York Highlanders. There first stadium was on Broadway at 168th Street.

Orde-Lees' Journal - October 26, 1915 Further heavy pressure took place again this evening lifting first the bows then the stern several...

Gas, 1940 “Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of...

Orde-Lees' Journal, October 25, 1915 "...This breaking up of the floe is very undesirable just now with low temperature as it seems to...