As the first world war broke out across Europe, Shackleton's expedition to the South Pole became trapped by ice. Their ship, the Endurance, was crushed and the men were forced to survive in and escape from one of the world's most hostile environment. Traversing glaciers, scaling cliffs and crossing [...]

Based upon Shackleton's diaries and writings, this work gives the reader an insight into the appalling conditions that the author and his party endured when the Endurance lay trapped in sea ice and they were forced to march 600 miles across unstable sea ice.[...]

Ernest Shackleton led two Antarctic expeditions, and died shortly after the beginning of a third. His first expedition was not a total success (they did not reach the South Pole), and the second was, in some senses, a total failure (they never reached the Antarctic mainland at all). Yet it is the se[...]