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Oct 19, 2001 · TRAILER. "The Endurance" recounts one of the history's greatest tales of survival, Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 expedition to Antarctica. The expedition, Shackleton's third, followed the ...
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- Endurance Is Locked in by Ice
- Survival on An Ice Floe
- Marooned on Elephant Island
- 'My Name Is Shackleton'
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Endurance had left South Georgia for Antarctica on December 5, 1914, carrying 27 men (plus one stowaway, who became the ship’s steward), 69 dogs, and a tomcat erroneously dubbed Mrs. Chippy. The goal of expedition leader Shackleton, who had twice fallen short—once agonizingly so—of reaching the South Pole, was to establish a base on Antarctica’s We...
In the time that passed between abandoning Enduranceand watching the ice swallow it up completely, the crew salvaged as many provisions as they could, while sacrificing anything and everything that added weight or would consume valuable resources— including bibles, books, clothing, tools and keepsakes. Some of the younger dogs, too small to pull th...
It was the first time they had been on dry land since leaving South Georgia 497 days previously. But their ordeal was far from over. The likelihood of anybody coming across them was vanishingly small, and so after nine days of recuperation and preparation, Shackleton, Worsley and four others set out in one of the lifeboats, the James Caird,to seek ...
There was no conceivable circumstance under which three strangers could possibly appear from nowhere at the whaling station, and certainly not from the direction of the mountains. And yet here they were: their hair and beards stringy and matted, their faces blackened with soot from blubber stoves and creased from nearly two years of stress and priv...
Once the other three members of the James Caird had been retrieved, attention turned to rescuing the 22 men remaining on Elephant Island. Yet, after all that had gone before, this final task in many ways proved to be the most trying and time-consuming of all. The first ship on which Shackleton set out ran dangerously low on fuel while trying to nav...
Ernest Shackleton never did reach the South Pole or crossed Antarctica. He launched one more expedition to the Antarctic, but the Endurance veterans who rejoined him noticed he appeared weaker, more diffident, drained of the spirit that had kept them alive. On January 5, 1922, with the ship at South Georgia, he had a heart attack in his bunk and di...
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Mar 9, 2022 · The wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s ship “Endurance” has been found 107 years after it sank off the coast of Antarctica and National Geographic has been swift to commission a documentary on the ...
Mar 9, 2022 · The recent discovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance will be the subject of a new documentary coming to National Geographic Channels and Disney+ this autumn. The wreck of Endurance has been found 107 years after it became trapped in sea ice and sank off the coast of Antarctica. The wooden ship had not been seen since it went down in the ...
Synopsis. Kenneth Branagh stars as Sir Ernest Shackleton in this epic two-part drama about the legendary British explorer. It recounts the story behind his remarkable 1914 expedition to the South Pole, the astonishing hardship endured by his crew and their remarkable escape from seemingly certain death when their ship, The Endurance, became ...
Mar 9, 2022 · THE extraordinary discovery of the Antarctic exploration ship Endurance took place at the weekend on the 100th anniversary of the funeral of Sir Ernest Shackleton, who led the expedition and saved all the crew with a legendary feat of seamanship. Endurance was found in 10,000ft (3000m) of water in the Weddell Sea and is in a remarkable state of ...
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Show Schedule. The true story of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance, told by the man who lead the only team ever to have repeated their incredible feat - explorer and adventurer Tim Jarvis.
