How Did Shackleton Survive The Endurance Expedition?

[@HistoryHit]

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[@StuSaville]

I have a print of one of Frank Hurley's iconic photos of the Endurance on my wall, so glad they made the effort to save his work despite the desperate situation. Shackleton's expedition would not be as famous as it is today if not for Hurley's photojournalism.

[@circa1890]

I have Hurley's photo of the crew waving to the James Caird when it took off from Elephant Island, Point Wild. That trust and hope they had as they're seeing Shackleton and his small crew drift away - so touching. Could feel Hurley's pain as he had to see many of his photos/videos sink on the Endurance. We are lucky we got what we have. Yes, that documentation is still so important.

[@scottjohnson921]

Just finished reading the book, Endurance. One of the best books I have ever read.

[@PaddleSquatch]

I just got done reading it as well. This video does a decent job in generalizing what happened, but for anyone who wants to know more I can't recommend the book enough.

[@timewastetv7019]

Me too, finished it in two days

[@BHuang92]

For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton. -Sir Raymond Priestly

[@diane9247]

Oh, that's a wonderful quote!

[@ChillinHD]

Just going through all the biggest scientific discoveries of 2022. Ended up here after some research. What an amazing story.

[@zackattack366]

One of the greatest stories of leadership

[@DirtyFrench-zr3sv]

This is a truly great expedition, reconnecting with a team who were, and still are, an inspiration to many explorers and people around the World. 🇬🇧✌

[@wxm909]

These were brave resilient men. What these people achieved over 100 years ago without the equipment we have today deserves respect.

[@hv4285]

Crazy right? I think a team of mountaineers tried to replicate that 36 hours climb in the 50s and they were unsuccessful even with better equipment at that time

[@strawspulledatrandom.]

P.s having someone like Tom crean on your team too would of been invaluable. Unsung hero

[@GraachAhim]

Hell, yeah ! And there is a book about his, called.... Unsung Hero !

[@curiousworld7912]

I remember Kenneth Branagh's film about Shakleton, and found the story fascinating. I think his leadership had much to do with expedition's men surviving, along with luck. And, as far as I'm concerned; the men were all heroes. Good luck on your adventure. :)

[@fleadoggreen9062]

I didn’t know there was a movie!! Thanks I’m gonna look it up

[@curiousworld7912]

@@fleadoggreen9062 It's just titled 'Shackleton', and came out in 2002, I believe. Branagh is terrific as Shackleton, as are the rest of the cast. There's a quote from Shackleton's recruitment advertisement on the back of the dvd; 'Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.' Honesty in advertisement, I'd say. :) I hope you're able to find this film, and that you enjoy it. :)

[@Kman-nh3un]

I saw an imax production about the same time 2002, it was an amazing film / story so I'm wondering if it's the same as the one your talking about.

[@curiousworld7912]

@@Kman-nh3un I don't know - it could well be. :)

[@Thx1138sober]

What's really sad is that several of the survivors were killed shortly after their return in the trenches of the western front of WWI.

[@ToreDL87]

Biggest mistake made was and is using people of wrong talents for a job. They would have been far more suitable for teaching survival techniques etc.

[@robertafierro5592]

That is sad.

[@kalebstuckey570]

Two. Two of them did. And they were both killed on submarines, neither in the trenches. Almost all of the rest ended up living at least 20 more years if not up to 50 or so more years.

[@brandonpeters1618]

⁠​⁠@@kalebstuckey570 One damn near died on one of Percy Fawcett’s journey through the Amazon Later lost in the arctic

[@HistoryHit]

Hope you enjoyed! Do you think it was Shackleton's leadership, the unsung heroism of the other expedition members or pure luck that helped all 28 men survive? 🤔

[@sparkymmilarky]

All three at once! 😊 The ability to think calmly and rationally in extreme situations was crucial

[@lifeschool]

It's easy to forget they also had their Christian beliefs at that time, being so close to death as they were. They sang and this keeps the blood pumping and also keeps the spirits up by giving the body a 'singing high'. They survived because there was just enough body heat and lamp oil to keep the upturned lifeboats warm enough. Hope combined with Faith is what did it.

[@kahport]

But if you include the other half of the expedition, the Ross Sea party that had gone on the Aurora, not everyone survived. It seems like the efforts of these men have been ignored. I hope their story will also be told before this series concludes.

[@leandabee]

2 parties = party hats and whistles 😅😅😅

[@corbinbacon9043]

I'm really excited about this expedition! Thank you for posting it to KZbin! What an adventure!!

[@jeremychick4797]

Great that the crew survived, but all those poor animals that died 💔

[@lsudx479]

Don't worry. They got the men's butts discount.

[@busterboy7505]

That was a really interesting short video, I didn’t realise that it took so long before they reached elephant Island, Shackleton and his men were very strong determined guys, no doubt they must have thought it was the end for them many times, I think Shackleton was a great leader without a doubt 👍 God Bless🙏.

[@DelphyThe1]

Strong leadership is incredibly important on such an expedition. Men back then were accustomed to hard work and I am sure this contributed to their survival. However it takes incredible teamwork and endurance to overcome such an ordeal.

[@survivehistory]

Amazing animation and well narrated!

[@dukemarlborough2012]

Another brilliant history lesson. This channel is exceptional. well done to all involved.

[@joenolan4917]

Each of the the above for sure. Hitting South Georgia in the small James Caird vessel, thru some of the most treacherous waters in the world, is one of the luckiest moments in naval history I believe. All those guys were exceptionally brave. Good luck with the rest of the journey, I hope you don’t return to a world war like Shackleton himself!

[@ganippo]

Love the animation style! Also looking forward to seeing how the expedition works.

[@meadi6510]

It was the chippys cat in the picture but the man is not him. It's Blackbough

[@kahport]

I think it is important to tell the fate of the Ross Sea party. Without that, we're only getting half the story. They did their job, then waited for Shackleton, who, as we know, never came. Three members of the party died.

[@hv4285]

Thank you for this video, very concise and perfectly narrated! I've been looking for a short introductory video that captures the book, including the map, as well as photos and short narration from Shackleton so I can send it to my friend. This story always gives me chill (literally because of how cold it was in their sea journey) #theydontmakethemliketheyusedto

[@shishir1969]

Good Luck. And thank you

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

To me not only did they endure they also accomplished.

[@sparkymmilarky]

Really well done video

[@tomp.214]

The person in the picture with McNish's cat (the carpenter) isn't the actually McNish, the person in that photo was a stowaway on the Endurance. When he was found on the ship Shackleton said something along the lines of "If we run out of food we'll eat you first" that wasn't the exact quote but it was something like that.

[@welshgal179]

It was Perce Blackburrow a Welshman. He is buried here in Newport. Apparently when Shackleton said the above supposedly Perce said "they would get more meat off you Sir!"

[@tomp.214]

@@welshgal179 Wow what a checky stow-away! So many amazing facets and details to the story of the Endurance

[@bigdeal6852]

@@welshgal179 Was he the Carpenter ? That refused to work ?

[@A808K]

Amazing story of perseverance. Always heard the name Shackleton but had no idea of the expedition rigors and ultimate crew survival. It was disheartening to know the fate of the cat especially and the 69 dogs though.

[@elliottg.1954]

Interesting to hear Shackleton's voice on tape. But you did mention Captain Frank Worsley, who was instrumental in getting all those castaways safely out of trouble. It was also a team effort without which many or all of these men would have perished. When it all came down to navigation and seamanship, Shackleton was lost. It's hard to see why he gets all the creds for his monumental cockup.

[@Dave_Sisson]

At 10:19 that is Perce Blackborow the ship's steward, *not* Harry McNish the carpenter, although it is his cat, Mrs Chippy. (Which was a male despite its name.)

[@IRVisionPrints]

It’s been found!!! Update video needed

[@twifosp]

Too bad the crew of the Aurora was less fortunate. Reading "Shackleton's Forgotten Men" at the moment.

[@strawspulledatrandom.]

Times and men were just tougher then. Fact..plus he had his pride and drive to push him past his limits as a human.. mentally he was an absolute beast. His men saw that in him .. great shows.by the way.. hugely enjoyable 🔥👍

[@ryescott9445]

Wouldn't it be a summer storm December and January in the southern hemisphere?

[@diane9247]

I strongly encourage anyone interested to read the several available books about Shackleton, individual crew members and the ship Endurance. It remains one of the most amazing tales of fortitude, inventiveness and superb leadership in human history. I read in one of them that most of the photos had to be left behind for the trek to Elephant Island due to their weight. What we see now is a small portion and the only visual record we have of this remarkable expedition.

[@COJW516]

What timing!! 107 years later and they've found it!!

[@jtl909]

No mention of Mrs. Chippy! What a tragic omission.

[@willmpet]

She was mentioned and shown in a photo with Blackborough!

[@davemilke3110]

I found this abbreviated version of the story interesting and well done. I am curious about the film footage that was used, that 'appears' to document the narrative. Is that period film, AI or the real thing? Thanks in advance.

[@joandar1]

A Winter Storm in January? I think NOT in the Antarctic! If you are going tell a story then let it be correct. That is Summer! John, Australia.

[@131alexa]

Thanks - this is an excellent series: interesting history and exciting to follow the search for Shackleton's Endurance! I also recommend the KZbin channel Sea Ice Stories by Christian Katlein, a scientist providing robotics and sea-ice expertise on the Endurance22 mission, who is doing regular updates.

[@aaronz7056]

Sir Ernest, wherever you are now: your ship has been found!

[@bigsky2081]

Mrs. Chippy wasn't weak. Putting him ( Mrs Chippy) down was just another of the poor decisions made by Shackleton. The ice conditions were the worst the whaling Captain's had ever seen but Shack went anyway. Had he made a landing on the continent and attempted the crossing he and all his team were doomed as the depots from the other side were not made. Death awaited Shack and his men. I will long hold high Chippy and his cat!!!!!!!

[@alison__16]

Well said

[@willmpet]

I found Lansing’s book in my high school library in the 1960s.

[@fleadoggreen9062]

That sounds like the hardest adventure and if you ask me basically for nothing

[@richardswinson4381]

All 3

[@JGB5437]

Yo you didn’t have to say that about the dogs and dudes cat I could’ve lived without that sadness

[@Afro408]

Ah. I hadn’t realised Shakleton had changed the name of his ship! Bad luck! 🤦‍♂️ This is a great series and I’m waiting anxiously for each episode. 👍👏👏

[@robbiereilly]

Oh, just found this. Excellent. I look forward to more stories from Antarctica and Dan Snow and History Hit TV. Cheers from Tokyo.

[@jordanforever21]

Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together but when I look ahead up the white road there is always another one walking beside you gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you? --T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land The following lines were stimulated by the account of one of the Antarctic expeditions (I forget which, but I think one of Shackleton's): it was related that the party of explorers, at the extremity of their strength, had the constant delusion that there was one more member than could actually be accounted for. --Eliot's Notes

[@terrerov]

This documentary failed to mentioned that the crew had to eat their dogs.

[@charltheron2769]

I'll eat anything to survive, except another human. Even the latter might pass as a false conviction, near death.

[@EsherAcademy]

We don’t talk much about the Nimrod Expedition. Shackleton could have reached the South Pole but turned back because he did not want to risk the lives of his team as he feared running out of food on the return journey. He got further south than anyone before him had reached. His leadership was outstanding but a large part of it was his thoughts for his men who always came first. His choice of the group to go on James Caird is an example - Worsley, the brilliant navigator, Crean - the tough cheerful Irishman, McCarthy - the youngest sailor and McNish - the worst troublemaker.

[@user-uy6uc5ey5q]

Bit tough on McNish. Though he didn't get on very much with Shackleton for periods of the expedition (famously over the ships cat as mentioned in the clip) but for McNish abilities as the ships carpenter the crew would have struggled to survive, particularly when stuck in the ice. Also, during this period he was one of regular attendees of the poker game Shackleton ran among the senior members of the expedition. After they had a major issue while hauling to get off the ice (which there conflicting accounts of what occurred between McNish and Shackleton which range from a mild argument all the way to Shackleton threatening to shoot McNish) Shackleton had McNish head up one of the watches on the boat they both were in, and after NcNish's simply incredible efforts on improving the James Caird (without which the boat would never have survived the trip) he was one of the toughest guys on the boat, out preforming much younger men like John Vincent. Again once at South Georgia, but for his skill as a miracle worker, fashioning crude crampons for the island crossing party, they would have never made it.

[@alison__16]

RIP the poor animals who gave their lives to human folly 💔

[@tomasf.748]

Attention people from google: I have a theory of how to find the Endurance ship of the Ctan. Chacleton sunk at the south pole. Well, now that they found it, I can say my theory because it doesn't matter anymore: make a 1:10 scale replica of the Endurance and match the conditions as it was, arrive exactly at the place where it sank and more or less the same date of the year and place it exactly in the position and direction where the original was and sink it right there. Follow it to where she went at the bottom and go from there to do the search. Well; That was my theory of how to find it years ago when I read about it in “Very Interesting”. But since I forgot about the subject for years, well here are the results. Although it is a theory that can be verified !!!!! Well, if the conditions of the ship are matched, the temperatures, the broken masts, the part of the hull that broke and the exact date of the year in which she sank. Possibly the same underwater currents that carried him within 6 miles of her position. Atención gente de google: tengo una teoria de como encontrar el barco Endurance del Ctan. Chacleton hundido en el polo sur. Bueno ya que lo encontraron puedo decir mi teoria pues ya no importa: hacer una replica a escala 1:10 del Endurance e igualar las condiciones de como se encontraba, llegar exactamente al sitio donde se hundió y mas o menos la misma fecha del año y colocarlo exactamente el posición y dirección donde el original se encontraba y hundirlo ahi mismo. Seguirlo hasta donde llegaba en el fondo y partir de ahí para hacer la búsqueda. Bueno; esa era mi teoría de cómo encontrarlo años atrás cuando leí del tema en “Muy Interesante”. Pero como me olvidé del tema durante años, pues ahí los resultados. Aunque es una teoría que se puede comprobar!!!!! Pues si se igualan las condiciones del barco las temperaturas, los mástiles partidos, la parte del casco que se rompió y exactamente la fecha del año en que se hundió. Posiblemente existan las mismas corrientes submarinas que lo llevaron a 6 millas de su posición.

[@lifeschool]

A generally great (and fun) animation! The background blizzard effect was a bit annoying, as it repeats every second, and looks like 5 frames of animation. It's annoying to epilepsy sufferers as it just repeats over and over. I think you missed a trick when you mention the two 'parties' of people at the South Pole, basically because you didn't say what happened to the second party. Maybe there is a chance you can cover the 'rescue' stage in more detail, as I think you sold it short. He went back to rescue them on at least three occasions, and each time failed. I think they used different boats, but none were big enough, or something. The men almost certainly had to wear seal skins just to keep body temperature up, and lived on seal fat and meat - which tasted a lot like the foul stench of the rations they had, which Dan Snow ate in the Schools video on that other channel. The teams arrived just as Summer was leaving the area, and so the men had to endure the full Antarctic Winter before they could be rescued - not something which would be recommended by any means.

[@sebastians783]

Kudos to my Chilean brothers for rescuing the crew 👍

[@kenadams5504]

The Endurance shipwreck HAS been located in modern times , but it won't be removed from the seabed.

[@EerieV23]

I had heard about the Shackleton story, but some how it escaped me that they were trapped for 2 years in the ice. It is hard to believe that would be possible.

[@stevozrepto5558]

Shackelton and Crean Both Irishmen 😊👍☘️☘️☘️

[@quadclaw]

Found

[@TrevorTrottier]

The Inuit is how they survived, like most explorers of the artic.

[@loicbazin1053]

There are no Inuit in Antarctica

[@aradawg]

Wrong hemisphere mate lol

[@charltheron2769]

Wrong part of the globe mate. This is Antarctica, aka South Pole, not the North Pole. Should I fail your geography teacher, or you not listening at school?

[@gjigaqaquj]

Literally against all odds... right?

[@arcanondrum6543]

Shackleton was NOT well prepared, *LEFT COUNTLESS SUPPLIES on the ship that they had returned to more than once* AND had the dumbest luck in a rowboat and a long, LONG walk over land before competent people took over. There are perhaps, many reasons for many of his Men to still believe in him but I wonder how much was true and how long it lasted after all was over. I know of no recount of this story where Shackleton is not portrayed in a positive light. Am I too harsh? Let's just say that I'm skeptical. More so after my own personal experience with people.

[@charltheron2769]

Correction: That navigation on open waters on a bobbing small boat to the remote island, especially the 2nd one, over a 1,400km+ away to the Nordic(?) whaling station island, had fuckal to do with dumb luck. Read the account how the navigator had to get a (continual) fix at different intervals, on the stars and the horizon, on a bobbing boat, and why it is regarded as one of the greatest feats of exploration navigation ever. Less than a fraction degree wrong, and they would have rowed to their death in missing that island destination, in a featureless surround.

[@GraachAhim]

Today's men couldn't stand that kind of harsh conditions. Now the "heavy task" seems to be finding free spot at a shopping mall parking lot whilst our kids storm at the back seat. There is only one true surviving real hero who faced a long and painful ordeal and came back to rescue his pals, and he is Nando Parrado.

[@elliottg.1954]

Those men were adventurers and explorers in uncharted territory; there are plenty of people who could do it now, and with much more suitable technology and equipment. Antarctica is not guarded because military activity is prohibited under the Antarctic Treaty. However, people still need permission to visit Antarctica from their country or the country they will pass through.

[@heyzus]

Another honour for failure!

[@jurgenlose7555]

P.

[@bradmatthew9142]

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[@bennichols1113]

He was just smart enough to take a kiwi with him.

[@gooner72]

This is a truly great expedition, reconnecting with a team who were, and still are, an inspiration to many explorers and people around the World. 🇬🇧✌

[@Anglo_Saxon1]

It's men like these that advance the human race mate.👍