The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

Shackleton and his crew were doing a expedition when they suddenly got stuck in the ice, they tried for hours to get out by smashing the ice with pixake’s. The ice got tighter and tighter until it finally broke through the boat and crushing it, to where it was no longer of use. The men traveled through sea and land, they even got caught in a hurricane. Nobody from his crew died during this horrifying moment. They came across a island called elephant, they set up camp and shackleton took some men to go find help, the rest of the men were stranded until he returned.

Everyone he encountered and got close to thought he was following his dreams. His adventure into the Alaskan wilderness was all he talked about with his parents when he started college. At the beginning of each chapter of Into the Wild, there are quote(s) that relate to each chapter. The following quote was included at the beginning of chapter three from Wallace Stegner’s

‘Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage’ is a book about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and the survival of 25 of the men who beat the odds of death after facing ice that was crashing and freezing up onto the sides of their ship, having to abandon the “Endurance” when she couldn’t handle the pressure from the ice floes and later sunk into the ocean and surviving the below zero temperatures with only what the crew could salvage from the ship and what they could gather from the nature around them, to finally be rescued. Alfred Lansing spent his time on creating this book and recreating the story of the ship and crew’s journey for readers, but what is the significance of this book? The durability of the Endurance ship crew shows their

I believe it is this because Jon Krakaeur flashes back to before the climb, during the climb, and after the climb. In the book, Krakaeur shows examples before the climb like on page 156, “At 1 a.m., thirty miles east of Rawlins, the strain of the day caught up to me.” He shows examples during the climb when he says “For two days I slogged steadily up the glacier without incident, congratulating myself for discovering such a clever path to the Thumb.” And he also shows examples of after the climb when he says, “ The euphoria, the overwhelming sense of relief, that had initially accompanied my return to Petersburg faded, and an unexpected melancholy took its place.” on page

Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm is a tragically true detailed account of lives of the crew members of the Andrea Gail, a longline swordfishing boat that was caught in the 1991 “Perfect Storm” and submerged in the North Atlantic ocean with its passengers never to be seen again. The novel focuses on the crew and the main idea is centered around their lives and the dangers of longline fishing. The story does not follow the man vs nature theme; though the storm took the lives of the crew, they faced danger at every turn of the page and were taken from their lives the day they first set sail. Captain Billy Tyne, Bobby Shatford, Dale Murphy, David Sullivan, Michael Moran, and Alfred Pierre are the crew members whose stories are told through

A Norwegian lumber barge called the Strømwellwas caught in a storm and dragged into the cape where Camp Meriwether now resides. It was broken up and the wreckage washed ashore on the beach near the cape. Only the captain survived, trapped in the wreckage while his crew and his young wife drowned in the storm. He was found by some natives and died a few weeks later from gangrene in one of his shattered limbs. Apparently, he went mad from grief before the end, rambling on about how he should have gone down with the ship so that the others could have survived.

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was an explorer, he led three expeditions to the Antarctic. He was born in Ireland and moved to London when he was ten years old. Shackleton's first began exploring the polar regions as a third officers under Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition, During his second expedition he and three others set a record Farthest South latitude at 88°S, only 180 km from the South Pole. Also, he over saw members of his team climb Mount Erebus, an active Antarctic volcano. Due to these achievements, Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII on his return home.

His name did not reflect his life at all. Keiko means “lucky one” or “blessed child” in Japanese, and Keiko was anything but lucky. He was one of the many unfortunate orcas plucked from their families in the ocean and taken into captivity and the limited space of a tank. He was captured in 1979, near Reyðarfjörður, Iceland, when he was only three

Christopher McCandless, whose life and journey are the main ideas of the novel “Into the Wild”, was about an adolescent who, upon graduating from Emory College, decided to journey off into the Alaskan wilderness. He had given away his savings of $25,000 and changed his name to Alex Supertramp. His voyage to Alaska took him two years during which he traveled all across the country doing anomalous jobs and making friends. He inevitably made it to Alaska were he entered the wilderness with little more than a few books, a sleeping bag and a ten pound bag of rice. A couple months after his first day in the wild, his body was found in an abandoned bus.

The first people to ever successfully climb Mount Everest are Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa. On May 29, 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa completed Mount Everest (“The Telegraph”). The second successful climb was by Ernest Schmied and Jurg Mermet. On May 23, 1953 Ernest and Jurg successfully climbed Mount Everest (“First Ten People Who Climbed Mount Everest”). Not many can say they have successfully climbed Mount Everest, which makes the mountain such an honorable

If Shackleton would have listened to the warnings about the weather it could have said many people a ton of pain. The case study says, “Shackleton decided to hole up in South Georgia for several weeks, watching for any change in the ice. A month later, with conditions unchanged, the Endurance departed the whaling outpost for

(Keith, 1) This time is really hard when people are in an at risk situation because, like the main character said, she will need a seven-hour journey to pick up the teenagers, not three-and-a-half-hour like in the normal day. That means in the place

One of the pirates grabbed an ax and began chopping away. After two of the three masts fell, the pirates and the captive crew all huddled together in desperation to hear one of the literate men on the ship The pirates and sailors on the Mary Anne were relieved when daybreak arrived. The ship ran a ground on a small island south of Eastham, and it being low tide they could actually jump down from the ship onto dry ground. The pirates picked up at the point where they were so rudely interrupted by continuing to drink down the wine that survived the storm. Samuel Bellamy died on April 26,1717

To celebrate their honeymoon they stayed at an inn near the lake in their town. Weeks passed and they still haven 't returned and soon the town suspected something was wrong. The local police checked their hotel and the areas around it and that 's where they found him, Floating down the stream with a guilty smile on his face, as dead as a rock. To Be

He had set on his fourth voyage with his son John, Robert, and his crew, they were aboard the ship “Discovery” they had set out to sea navigating into an inlet into northern Canada In July 1610 they sailed into Hudson Bay. He and his crew spent many months documenting, and mapping the coast line, they were unfortunate in finding a way west. After several months, winter had came and The Hudson Bay had filled with ice leaving them with no escape. The crew had no choice but to drop anchor, and stay until the bay cleared of ice.