Shackleton’s second-in-command Frank Wild inspects the crushed remains of ‘Endurance’ after the crew abandoned ship (Image credit: Getty / Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) Shackleton's rescue mission Shackleton led his men through the shrinking ice pack for months while they tried to reach land. The ship sank shortly afterwards and the crew escaped with three lifeboats and limited supplies.
Stuck fast in the ice, with the crew unable to break Endurance free, the ship drifted to within approximately 30 miles (48km) of Antarctica in January 1915, before drifting north.Įndurance was slowly crushed by the moving ice, until Shackleton ordered the crew to abandon ship on Oct. With a crew of 28 (including Shackleton), Endurance entered the Weddell Sea but became trapped in pack ice during Dec. On the other side of the continent, the second crew, called the Ross Sea Party, planned to drop off depot supplies from their ship Aurora. "He hoped to cross Antarctica and make a famous name for himself over and above Scott." "His expedition would consist of two ships: one would drop supply depots for him and the other from the other side of the continent, which he would personally lead," British explorer and Shackleton biographer Sir Ranulph Fiennes told All About History magazine.
The crew sailed to the Weddell Sea via South Georgia. Formally known as the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, the Endurance Expedition to Antarctica began in August 1914.
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