28 Men Trapped in Antarctic Ice for 589 Days with Zero Food

In November 1915, the exploration ship Endurance was crushed by millions of tons of Antarctic pack ice. 28 men were left stranded with no ship, no radio, and no hope of rescue. For 589 days, through the lethal polar night, sub-zero blizzards, and cracking ice floes, the crew fought starvation on penguin blubber and raw seal meat. Facing certain death, Ernest Shackleton and 5 men launched a 22-foot open wooden boat across 800 miles of the deadliest hurricane-force ocean on Earth. This is the true, untold survival story of the Endurance—the greatest survival feat in human history, where against all biological odds, every single man survived. 🧊 Subscribe to Lost Expeditions for true polar survival documentaries: @LostExpeditions — Chapters: 0:00 – The Sinking of the Endurance 1:18 – The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 2:35 – Trapped in the Weddell Sea Vise 3:50 – Ten Months of Winter Darkness 5:12 – The Ice Crushes the Hull 6:30 – Ocean Camp: Surviving on Raw Blubber 7:48 – The Death March Across Broken Floes 9:05 – Escape to Elephant Island 10:15 – The 800-Mile Voyage of the James Caird 11:30 – Crossing South Georgia’s Glaciers 12:45 – The Miracle of Elephant Island: All 28 Alive