Endurance - An Epic Story of Survival - Episode 3 - Into The Pack Ice

In this episode, we meet the ship at the heart of our story — the Endurance. One hundred and forty-four feet long and built in Norway in 1912, she was originally intended for Arctic tourist cruises. Fate had other plans. Departing South Georgia Island on the 5th of December 1914, the Endurance almost immediately encountered pack ice in the Weddell Sea — heavier and further north than any of the old whalers had ever seen it. By January 1915, the ice had closed in around her like a slow, irresistible fist. For ten months, the ship and her crew drifted northward, locked in the frozen sea, while Shackleton fought to keep his men's spirits alive through sheer force of will. But the ice was tightening — and by October 1915, it was crushing the hull as if it were made of paper. This is the episode where everything begins to go wrong.