Why the Shackleton expedition failed
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Did they ever! But what a miracle that they had high quality cameras and film through the whole ordeal.
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An amazing story I read as a teenager. It was one of the many adventure stories that fueled my own passion for adventure.
The wife just bought me the book South With Endurance / The Photographs of Frank Hurley. I've only skimmed through it but it's full of amazing photographs.
Shackleton was amazing. Check out his help wanted ad for the expedition:
And once the expedition got back to England, most of then immediately volunteered to serve in the trenches. They don't make then like that anymore.
And once the expedition got back to England, most of then immediately volunteered to serve in the trenches. They don't make then like that anymore.
Anyone for Mars? Live the next fifty years in an enclosure the size of a trailer and grow your own oxygen. However, the view out the windows, which will probably be rather small, will be spectacular, as long as you last. And you thought you knew how annoying other people could be.
Not Royal Yacht. But it did make me laugh! There are only two continents I have not been to South America and Antarctica. But I did do four years in Alaka with the 1/501 PIR. I know what cold, lonely, and far from help feels like! As such I can understand how rough the expedition had it and, by the Gods, how tough those men were. Cold is the worst possible enemy, it never gives up, never gets tired, and is relentless just beating you down. It is so very patient just waiting for you to make a mistake. Not to mention the extra calories required just to stay warm. I seriously admire those tough bastards!
Everyone knows the Shackleton expedition failed because they took St Bruno with them instead of Condor!
Soap lmao!! No when fuel is at a minimum you cannot waste it on warming ice cold water up. And using freezing water to bathe works in temperate zones, but getting wet at -70 F is just a great way to be dead. Heck in Bosnia with the greatest military in the world, US Army, we did not see a shower for over a month and clean uniforms hahaha. So imagine being in that time period. No deorderant either back then. Tough old birds they were!
Amundsen spent two winters in relative comfort at King Williams Island, there's something to be said for planning and being open to ideas.
I think Franklin was the first through the Passage and was in such a rush to get home was lost on the return trip heading back east. :nana:
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