They had to work together and embrace the situation they were in. They took care of each other the best they could which ultimately led to their survival. There were low moments, but they continued to push forward as a crew. They were able to keep their spirits positive for most of the trip, rallying around each other and hope of rescue. What I found truly incredible about this story is that none of the men died. I worry that people these days wouldn’t have the strength or tenacity to survive because of their addiction to technology, phones, and immediate satisfaction. There wasn’t technology or a need for constant stimulation, which you definitely weren’t going to find on the ice of Antarctica. Men worked, women took care of the home or worked, and everyone lived in the present. I can imagine that in 1914, life itself was much simpler. I wondered if some of the crew’s contentment stemmed from their lives before the ice. These men endured leopard seals, sinking ships, lack of food, melting ice underneath their feet, and were somehow able to maintain a positive attitude and find content in their situation. For two and a half years, they were pushed, frozen, wet, and fought to survive the elements of the Antarctic weather. Shackleton’s crew set sail on Decemand didn’t find reprieve from their strenuous circumstances until August 30, 1916. The ice pack quickly overtook their ship and left them stranded. Those hopes were surrounded by ice packed into the bay they were sailing through. Loaded down with gear, they began their adventure with high hopes.
He and his wife, Barbara, whom he married in 1955, had two children.In December of 1914, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out to be the first group to cross the Antarctic continent.
He worked as a writer for United Press and for Collier's magazine, as a freelance writer, and later as an editor for Time, Inc. Upon leaving the Navy in 1946, he returned to school, attending North Park College for two years and then transferring to Northwestern University. Navy throughout World War II, receiving the Purple Heart. Alfred Lansing was born in Chicago in 1921.
In 1960, Lansing received both the Christopher Award and the Secondary Education Board's Book Award for Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. Using diaries of expedition members and interviews with those still living, Lansing tells the story of the expedition, which met with disaster when their ship, the Endurance, was surrounded and eventually crushed by ice, leaving Shackleton and his crew trapped on the ice floes for five months before they were able to escape to open water in one of the lifeboats. Editor and author Alfred Lansing is best known for Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, a historical account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 voyage to Antarctica, written for a young adult audience.
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