Shackleton's Endurance: Every Man Came Home

In 1914, Ernest Shackleton sailed south to cross Antarctica on foot. He never set foot on the continent. His ship, Endurance, was trapped in the ice of the Weddell Sea, crushed, and sank, leaving 28 men stranded on drifting ice with three small boats.

This episode follows what came next: months camped on the ice, a desperate boat journey to Elephant Island, and an open-boat crossing of some 1,300 kilometres of the Southern Ocean to reach help on South Georgia. Every member of the ship's crew survived. We also sort the record from the legend, including the famous "men wanted" newspaper advert that probably never ran.

Created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host's voice, and checked against the historical record.