Shackleton's Endurance, Part 2: The Whistle
After the ship went down, 28 men camped on the drifting sea ice for five months, then took to three lifeboats and reached Elephant Island. From there, six of them sailed a 22-foot boat 800 miles to South Georgia, and three of those six walked across the island's mountains, which no one had ever crossed, to the whaling station at Stromness. Cover photo: the James Caird being launched from Elephant Island, April 1916. Frank Hurley, public domain. Narrated by an AI voice.
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