by the British Film Institute as part of a special season to mark the centenary of Shackleton’s death — would be a chronicle not of success but of survival against the odds. Famously, Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, which left England on Aug. 8, 1914 with 28 men, 69 dogs and pounds 50,000 worth of the latest scientific and technical equipment, became trapped in ice the following January.
Eventually, on Nov. 21, 1915, the Endurance sank. Some of Hurley’s most arresting photos are of the ship’s tilted exoskeleton, lit an unearthly white by the magnesium flares he had placed around it. In his journal he wrote, “Half-blinded after successive flashes, I lost my bearings amidst the hummocks, bumping shins against projecting ice points and stumbling into deep snow drifts… The negative…well repaid the cold endeavour.
The story of this, and Shackleton’s death-defying voyage with five of his men to the nearest human outpost, a whaling station on South Georgia, so all his men could be rescued has etched itself through the generations. One of the most dangerous journeys in the history of polar exploration, it has been celebrated in works as diverse as TS Eliot’s The Waste Land and Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn’s book on leadership, Forged in Crisis.
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