Shackleton's Endurance: The Day Three Strangers Reached Stromness

On May 20, 1916, three filthy, bearded men walked into a whaling station on South Georgia. The manager didn't recognize them. One of them said, "My name is Shackleton." This is the story of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition. The ship is crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea. Twenty-eight men camp on the drifting pack. Six of them take a lifeboat, the James Caird, 800 miles across the Southern Ocean. Then Shackleton, Frank Worsley and Tom Crean cross South Georgia's unmapped mountains on foot to reach Stromness. Three months later, on August 30, the 22 men left on Elephant Island are taken off. Every man comes home alive. It matters because the expedition failed at its goal and still became one of the great stories of leadership under pressure. And in March 2022, the wreck of Endurance was found on the seabed, 100 years to the day after Shackleton's burial. 0:00 Strangers at the Door 1:19 A Ship Called Endurance 2:55 Living on the Ice 4:25 800 Miles in a Lifeboat 6:13 Across the Mountains 8:03 Twenty-Two Men on a Rock 9:40 The Ship Under the Ice Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enduran...) https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/maritim... https://sght.org/sir-ernest-shackleton/ https://www.falklandsbiographies.org/... https://www.history.com/articles/shac... https://www.bas.ac.uk/news/new-map-of... https://nzaht.org/encourage/inspiring... https://ukaht.org/places/endurance-sh... #Shackleton #Endurance #Antarctica Archive photos: Agence Rol. Agence photographique (commanditaire), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Alex Gunn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Author Ernest Henry Shackleton Photograph by F. Hurley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Author Ernest Henry Shackleton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Frank Hurley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; George Charles Beresford / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Hannes Grobe 20:50, 12 November 2006 (UTC), Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons; Hannes Grobe, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Harley D. Nygren, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Hbk33, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Herbert G. Ponting (1870-1935), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Lieutenant Philip Hall, NOAA Corps, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kasha Patel., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Nadar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; National Maritime Museum from Greenwich, United Kingdom, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons; Probably Frank Hurley, the expedition's photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Reginald Grenville Eves, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Rob Oo from NL, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Rumping, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; State Library of New South Wales collection, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons; Underwood & Underwood, copyright claimant, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Wolfgang Fricke, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; amanderson2, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; nomis-simon, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; owamux, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons