How Did Shackleton's Men Survive the Antarctic Winter? | History for Sleep

How did Shackleton's men survive the Antarctic winter, with their ship frozen into the sea and no one in the world knowing where they were? Settle in for this history for sleep and spend a whole polar winter, 1915 to 1916, with the twenty eight men of the Endurance: tea at four o'clock in a room they called the Ritz, snow kennels for sixty nine sledge dogs, emperor penguins that bowed to the crew, a sun that set twice in one evening, the long night under the moon, the ship's last days in the ice, months on a drifting floe, and a second winter in a hut made from two upturned boats on Elephant Island. And every one of them came home. Every detail comes from Ernest Shackleton's own book, South (1919), built from his diary and the diaries of his men, with the real photographs of Frank Hurley, taken on the ice in 1915 and 1916. No invented heroes, no gore, no jump scares: just a calm voice, quiet wind and fire, and a story that keeps moving. Ads only in the first 25 minutes. The screen slowly dims after the first hour, and the last minutes are quiet. Where are you listening from tonight, and what time is it there? Chapters: 0:00:00 Tonight: the Weddell Sea, winter 1915 0:03:06 Chapter 1: The Edge of the Known World 0:12:18 Chapter 2: Into the Pack 0:24:01 Chapter 3: The Ritz and Dog Town 0:35:38 Chapter 4: Goodbye to the Sun 0:47:03 Chapter 5: The Long Night 0:57:36 Chapter 6: The Ice Wakes Up 1:10:01 Chapter 7: A Brave Little Ship 1:20:42 Chapter 8: The Last Night of the Endurance 1:32:07 Chapter 9: Ocean Camp 1:43:37 Chapter 10: Patience Camp 1:53:24 Chapter 11: Solid Ground 2:03:18 Chapter 12: The Hut Under Two Boats 2:13:07 Chapter 13: We Are All Very Cheerful 2:23:29 Chapter 14: We Are All Well, Boss Sources and further reading: • Sir Ernest Shackleton, South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914–1917 (London, 1919) — public domain, Project Gutenberg #5199 • Diaries of Frank Worsley and other members of the Weddell Sea party, as quoted in South (1919) • Endurance22 expedition, discovery of the wreck of the Endurance, March 2022 (Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust) Photographs: Frank Hurley, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914–1917 (public domain; Royal Museums Greenwich, State Library of New South Wales, Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons); Elephant Island: NOAA Photo Library and NASA Earth Observatory (public domain). Stock footage: Pixabay. Maps and illustrations: The Night Caravan. Pixabay authors: 10871402, 12019, 358611, 6617564, 6696758, 8moments, A_Different_Perspective, Afzaal0001, AlKalenski, Alicia_Chant, AlwynNienaber, BFCMUSIC, BlenderTimer, Camera-man, ChristianBodhi, Cristian-Manieri, ELG21, Eaktas06, EnchantedStudios, FlickrVideos, FrankyFromGermany, Gam-Ol, Geek_Anis_Studio, Gekonek, Gylfi, Huskyherz, InstaWalli, JHGilbert, Janvanbizar, Joe_hackney, Jojogrill, JordanHoliday, JoshuaWoroniecki, Kanenori, KrllKshn, Lekies, LisaOlivia, Macb3t, Mario_Krimer, MemoryCatcher, Mohamed_hassan, Moroznaya_Photo, Myriams-Fotos, Natalia_Kollegova, NguyenTham_NTB, Nils_Vega, Noel_Bauza, Osckar, Pauline_17, Peggychoucair, Pexels, Pezibear, Photo-View, Radds, Ralphs_Fotos, RavendraSingh, RelaxVideos, Relaxing_Guru, RostislavUzunov, RustamBilalov, SarahNic, Solarselle77, Tama66, TungArt7, UniverseUnique, Vimeo-Free-Videos, adege, ahmetyuksek, alpha-cruiser, astize, bellergy, brigachtal, clara5656, conghuynh8, conte_public, derdento, doktorkleinmusic, flutie8211, fotoblend, heidemsy, helamangile, invisiblepower, izhar-ahamed, jarmoluk, jevtajevtic7, jplenio, juphotography, kamilgrygo, kastaniubrunn, krace4, makabera, minka2507, pen_ash, pier6260, psaudio, sergei_spas, soramang, spalla67, subhro_vision, susan-lu4esm, u_8mydmf8g, u_pe0awg2zhi, voltamax, wal_172619, xiSerge, yoshitaka2. Previous nights: • How Did Medieval Peasants Survive Freezing Nights Without Heating?    • How Did Medieval Peasants Survive Freezing...   • The Rocky Mountains, winter 1836:    • How Did Mountain Men Survive Freezing Rock...   #historyforsleep #shackleton #sleepdocumentary