Shackleton’s Endurance: Greatest Antarctic Survival Story Ever Told

In 1914 Ernest Shackleton set out to cross Antarctica on foot, but his ship Endurance became trapped in pack ice and was crushed, leaving twenty-eight men stranded on a drifting floe hundreds of kilometres from land. Over the next two years Shackleton’s extraordinary leadership transformed an apparently hopeless situation into one of the greatest survival epics in exploration history, bringing every single man home alive.