![]() ![]() ![]() I don't know how these guys survived out there. The way that Lansing tells the story make you almost feel the extreme cold temperatures with the crew. Each new chapter had me almost not believing what I was reading. ![]() The crew spent ~1+ year trying to survive in the inhospitable Antarctic conditions, living on ice and deserted islands, all while trying to find rescue - the obstacles they overcame are almost impossible to comprehend.Their ship, the Endurance, was trapped by ice and ultimately sank after the pressure between ice packs crushed the ship - the crew was forced to set camp on the floating ice in the middle of the Arctic ocean.Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set out to be the first humans to cross the entire continent of Antarctica overland (through the South Pole) in 1914. ![]()
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