After a perilous six-day expedition, they arrived on the desolate Elephant Island on April 15. At night, they parked the boats on ice floes and made fires out of whale blubber. The boats were named the James Caird, the Dudley Docker, and the Stancomb Wills, after the expedition’s sponsors. On April 9, the growing thaw forced the crew to abandon all nonessential supplies and take to their three lifeboats. However, a greater danger was coming: the seasonal melt of the polar ice. Later, they were forced to move to the volatile ice floes, or Patience Camp, after the Endurance sank. The crew kept moving on the ice floes, first setting up what was known as Ocean Camp on solidly packed ice next to their trapped ship. The crew even built “Dogloos” for their dogs, which made for some of the most famous photos in Hurley’s collection. The crew saved as many supplies as they could and were forced to make camp on the frozen Antarctic, building housing out of ice and surviving on what they salvaged. The Endurance was stranded in the frozen pack ice for nine months, eventually becoming surrounded and crushed by an iceberg. When the ship was stranded in the Wendell Sea, Shackleton was forced to abandon his bold plan to cross the Antarctic continent from west to east and instead focus on getting his crew out alive.
Soon after setting out, the crew encountered their first sign of trouble when their ship was beset by pack ice in the Wendell Sea. Leonard Hussey expedition photographer Frank Hurley, famous for his daring lensmanship and the crew’s beloved sled dogs. The Endurance crew was composed of Shackleton and a hand-picked crew, including Second Officer Tom Crean, known by the men as “The Irish Giant ” meteorologist Dr.
Conceived by the legendary explorer in the aftermath of his successful Nimrod expedition seven years earlier, which brought Shackleton and his men closer to the South Pole than any team had ever reached, the Imperial Trans-Arctic Expedition set sail from the British islands of South Georgia in late 1914 and sighted Antarctic land five weeks later on January 19, 1915. The Endurance begins by setting up the events that led to Shackleton’s most famous expedition. In 2000, it was adapted into a critically acclaimed documentary film directed by George Butler. Touching on themes of discovery, survival, teamwork, and the age of exploration, The Endurance is considered one of the best and most detailed books regarding Shackleton’s expedition. It chronicles explorer Ernest Shackleton’s most famous expedition, when he and his men were stranded for over a year on Antarctic ice during an attempt to circumnavigate and map the frozen continent. The Endurance: Shackleton ’ s Legendary Antarctic Expedition is a nonfiction book by American author and journalist Caroline Alexander, first published in 1998.
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