pedition.
In August 1914, Shackleton and his crew of 27 men set sail on the Endurance for Antarctica, (Kelly, 2004, 4). Shackleton would fail in his goal of crossing the Antarctic. The Endurance became frozen in ice during one of the earliest and most severe winters on record. He and his men were 800 miles from open water and another 800 miles of open sea away from the nearest inhabited island, (Hense, 2004, 20). For a period of two years Shackleton and his crew would be out of touch with the civilized world. After becoming stranded in the ice, ShackletonÆs men walked the 800 miles across the open ice, while a crew of seven sailed in a 20-foot boat to South Georgia Island to get help at a whaling station, (Hense, 2004). The temperatures were 70 degrees belo
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