South: The Endurance ExpeditionThe Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the South Pole. Like the others it ended in disaster, with the Endeavour first trapped and then crushed to pieces in the ice and its crew trapped in the Antarctic, seemingly doomed to a slow and horrible death. In the face of extraordinary odds, Shackleton, the expedition's leader, decided on the only course that might just save them: a 700 nautical mile voyage in a small boat across the ferocious Southern Ocean in the forelorn hope of reaching the only human habitation within range: a small whaling station on the rugged, ice-sheeted island of South Georgia. |
Contents
New Land | |
Winter Months | |
Loss of the Endurance | |
Ocean Camp | |
The March Between | |
Patience Camp | |
The Boat Journey | |
Across South Georgia | |
The Rescue | |
Elephant Island | |
The Ross Sea Party | |
Wintering in McMurdo Sound | |
Laying the Depots | |
The Auroras Drift | |
Escape from the | |