More ICE problems- Endurance: Shakleton’s Incredible Journey

[jethreauxdawg]

Ok, i listened to the audio book, but it’s worth the read/listen.
It’s about Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to be the first person to cross Antarctica on land in 1914. Dude just rolled out with 27 guys to go cross Antarctica. No way to communicate with the outside world. His wooden ship gets stuck in and crushed by ICE. They end up sleeping on the ice for over a year. He eventually sails/rows across 800 miles of open ocean in a life boat to find help. Great book about all the went through, written from diaries the men kept and other reports they gave once they got back.
The amazing sense of adventure this crew had to have to go on this journey is hard for me to comprehend, and the way they survived, and for most of the time were never really concerned they wouldn’t survive is something else. Check it out.

 

[SanfordRJones]

I also listened to that book, and I agree. It's a great read/ listen.

 

[Pars]

Read it a few years ago
Incredible

 

[kired]

Those guys had to be just built different. There’s no way I’d survive in that environment. I’m sitting here feeling cold in my living room with the heat set on 68… would’ve been hard for me to not just give up.

 

[hdogg]

Nat geo did a thing on it a year or so ago, told in parallel w a modern crew trying to find the boat that sank. They had original film footage preserved. It was darn incredible.

 

[patdog]

Ok, i listened to the audio book, but it’s worth the read/listen.
It’s about Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to be the first person to cross Antarctica on land in 1914. Dude just rolled out with 27 guys to go cross Antarctica. No way to communicate with the outside world. His wooden ship gets stuck in and crushed by ICE. They end up sleeping on the ice for over a year. He eventually sails/rows across 800 miles of open ocean in a life boat to find help. Great book about all the went through, written from diaries the men kept and other reports they gave once they got back.
The amazing sense of adventure this crew had to have to go on this journey is hard for me to comprehend, and the way they survived, and for most of the time were never really concerned they wouldn’t survive is something else. Check it out.

That’s just one of several stories of unbelievable endurance in incredibly dangerous situations on the ocean in those days. It’s a miracle so many of those guys survived.

 

[Dawg Raid]

Love the book, just finished it