One of David's favorite books is "Endurance," which tells the story of Shackleton, an Antarctic explorer during the early 1900s who tried to reach the South Pole. His ship was frozen and cracked in the ice, and he and his men traveled more than 800 miles through frigid water in small boats to reach the Shetland Islands, where they could find rescuers On February 26 and 27, 2024, we visited several spots where the Shackleton adventure occurred.
As we cruised along the Antarctic peninsula, we were near the spot where Shackleton's ship was crushed.
As we sailed north, out of Antarctica, we passed Elephant Island, 800 miles from the crash site, where most of Shackleton's men spent several months while Shackleton and just a few crew members sailed on to South Georgia Island, where they found help. The rescuers for the main crew came and went from Puerto Arenas, where we spent a day before leaving for Antarctica.
The story is told compellingly in "Endurance."
Shackleton had a photographer on board who took hundreds of photos. At one point, the small boats the crew fled Antarctica on were overloaded, and they considered throwing the photos overboard.
As we sailed through the South Ocean out of Antarctica, there were still ice and icebergs, but also glimpses of bare earth.
We passed the remains of a research station.
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