Everyone Lives. He Still Died in Debt.

Ernest Shackleton never reached the South Pole and never crossed Antarctica. But when the ice crushed his ship Endurance in 1915, he brought every one of its twenty-eight men home alive. Six years later he died in debt, aged forty-seven. The finale of the Ice Trilogy: Scott, then Amundsen, then Shackleton. Watch the Scott episode:    • Captain Scott: The Most Argued-About Secon...  . Watch the Amundsen episode:    • Roald Amundsen Flew Into the Fog to Save t...   Chapters 0:00 Cold open 1:33 The outsider 4:28 The last prize 7:38 The vice 10:53 The boat 13:57 The door at Stromness 16:22 All safe, all well 19:19 The lone star 22:15 Outro Picture credits Robert Falcon Scott, 1910 (16159548553).jpg — Archives New Zealand from New Zealand — CC BY-SA 2.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ro... Diary of Shackleton, South with Scott. Wellcome M0000973.jpg — Wellcome Collection — CC BY 4.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Di... Stromness whaling station. Falkland Islands.jpg — nomis-simon — CC BY 2.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St... FW SLV Wild in the Masthead of the Quest 108.jpg — Alexander Macklin — CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FW... 1989 shackleton-grave hg.jpg — Hannes Grobe, AWI — CC BY-SA 2.5 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19... 2024 Frank Wild - Grab - by 2eight - ZSC0471.jpg — Stefan Brending (2eight) — CC BY-SA 3.0 de — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20... Shackletons Grave in Grytviken Cemetery (5663636904).jpg — Liam Quinn from Canada — CC BY-SA 2.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sh... 20090110-IMG 0681 (15472328874).jpg — nomis-simon — CC BY 2.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20... Harry McNeish Gravestone.jpg — Nigel Cross, Wellington — Attribution — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ha... Harry McNeish Gravestone cat.jpg — Nigel Cross — Attribution — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ha... Footage from Storyblocks (Kris's Unlimited All Access subscription licence, individual licence per clip), Pexels (free licence, no attribution required), and Pixabay (free licence, no attribution required). Music: Aether, Caverns, GROWTH/DECAY by Density & Time, YouTube Audio Library. Narration: AI voice (ElevenLabs). History, not advice. #ErnestShackleton #IceTrilogy #History