Endurance - An Epic Story of Survival - Episode 8 - Every Man Came Home.

In this final episode, the story of the Endurance reaches its extraordinary conclusion. While Shackleton, Crean, and Worsley had been crossing South Georgia, 22 men had been waiting on Elephant Island for 105 days — sheltering beneath upturned lifeboat hulls, surviving on seal and penguin meat, their clothing in tatters, their bodies deteriorating. Shackleton attempted three rescue missions before weather and pack ice defeated him each time. On the fourth attempt, aboard the Chilean vessel Yelcho, he finally broke through. Standing at the bow as the island came into view, he counted the figures emerging onto the beach. All 22. Every single man alive. Not one had been lost. Tom Crean returned home to Annascaul in County Kerry, married, had children, and opened a pub he named — with characteristic quiet humour — The South Pole Inn. He almost never spoke about what he had done. He died in 1938, largely unknown. But a statue stands in Annascaul now, his face turned toward the sea. The Endurance lies at the bottom of the Weddell Sea to this day. But the men came home. Every single one of them came home.