Geographical, June 1st, 2001
Ernest Shackleton's epic crossing of Antarctica has been called the greatest journey of all time. Eighty-five years later, a team travelled south to retrace his steps.
"We were a tiny speck in the vast vista of the sea -- the ocean that is open to all and merciful to none, that threatens even when it seems to yield and that is pitiless always to weakness." Ernest Shackleton
SIR ERNEST WROTE THIS after his ship, the Endurance, had been trapped in pack ice in February 1915, crushed and finally sunk. With his Trans-Antarctic Expedition aborted, Shackleton and 27 men took to the three `lifeboa...
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