How Did Shackleton Survive The Endurance Expedition

How Did Shackleton Survive The Endurance Expedition? History Hit is aboard an expedition to locate one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance. Trapped and eventually crushed by the Antarctic ice in 1915, no attempt to locate her since has been successful. But what really happened on that ill-fated polar voyage just over a century ago? And why has the Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-16 gone down as one of the greatest survival stories in history? In this animated explainer, we explore how the Endurance expedition unfolded, how it came close to disaster, and how it forged a generation of legendary polar explorers like Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley and Tom Crean. Against all the odds, all 28 men of the expedition survived after an epic Antarctic journey across the Weddell Sea to Elephant Island and finally South Georgia. Sign up to History Hit TV now and get 7 days free: #Shackleton