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Making Miracles

In speaking of Shackleton and how he brought his whole team home alive from the ill-fated Endurance expedition, the great Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen conqueror of the South Pole, said, "Courage and willpower can make miracles." Amundsen continued, "I know of no better example than what that man has accomplished."


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A Classic Shackleton Moment...

April 12, 1916 - Orde-Lees' Journal - excerpt As we and the day advanced, the weather deteriorated but the sun's disc was sufficiently visible through the haze for Captain Worsley to get the much desi

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