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Doing the Impossible



When doing the impossible - catching the Nimrod, surviving the boat journeys, crossing South Georgia, Shackleton had a rock solid faith to lean on.


In South, about the crossing of South Georgia, he wrote, “Still we were following the light.”


The phrase is a reference to his favorite hymn, Lead Kindly Light, "I do not ask to see the distant scene; one step enough for me."


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