Chasing Shackleton — Re-creating the World’s Greatest Journey of Survival

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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If you’ve ever read the classic book Endurance, you probably shivered and shuddered as you wondered what it would have been like to have undertaken Ernest Shackleton’s famously arduous Antarctic rescue mission. The adventurer Tim Jarvis did more than wonder. When Alexandra Shackleton challenged him to re-create her grandfather’s epic journey, he jumped at the chance to follow in the legendary explorer’s footsteps. Today on the show, Tim, the author of Chasing Shackleton: Re-creating the World’s Greatest Journey of Survival, first shares the story of Shackleton’s heroic effort to save the crew of his failed Antarctic expedition. Tim then tells us how he and his own crew replicated Shackleton’s journey over land and sea, from taking the same kind of rowboat to eating the same kind of rations — and the lessons in resilience and leadership he learned along the way.

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0:00.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:11.0	If you've ever read the classic book endurance
0:14.0	you probably shivered and shuddered as you wonder what it would have been like
0:17.0	to have undertaken Ernest Shackleton's famously arduous
0:19.0	Antarctic rescue mission.
0:21.0	The adventurer Tim Jarvis did more than wonder.
0:23.0	When Alexander Shackleton challenged him to recreate her grandfather's epic journey,
0:27.0	he jumped at the chance to follow in the legendary explorer's footsteps.
0:30.0	Tain the show, Tim, the author of Chackelton, recreating the world's greatest journey of survival,
0:36.6	first shares the story of Shackleton's heroic effort to save the crew of his failed Antarctic
0:40.4	expedition.
0:41.4	Tim then tells us how he and his own crew replicated
0:44.0	Shackleton's journey over land and sea, from taking the same kind of rowboat
0:47.4	to eating the same kind of rations and the lessons and resilience and leadership
0:51.0	he learned along the way. After the show is over check at our show notes at AOM. and All right. Tim Jarvis, welcome to the show.
1:08.2	All right, Tim Jarvis, welcome to the show.
1:11.1	Thanks for having me.
1:12.4	So you are an explorer and adventurer and in 2013 you did an
1:17.7	expedition in which you recreated Ernest Shackleton's famous rescue mission in the Antarctic.
1:24.0	I'm sure a lot of people have read that famous book, Endurance.
1:27.0	We're going to talk about that adventure today, but before we do, let's talk about your background.
1:32.0	How did you get started with exploring the Antarctic?
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