Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Interview with Chris Turney | 6

Against The Odds

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Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Chris Turney is an Earth scientist studying the causes and impacts of environmental and climate change with a focus on the Antarctic. Turney shares tales from his own ambitious expeditions to Antarctica and the greatest challenges Shackelton and his crew faced on the ice.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Against the Odds at Free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:14.0	From Wendry, I'm Cassie Depeckle and this is Against the Odds.
0:18.1	Over the last five episodes, we've told the story of two different expeditions on the Antarctic
0:30.0	continent, Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition and Henry Warzli's journey to try and reach the
0:36.0	South Pole. Today, we're talking to Chris Turnie, a scientist explorer, and the author of 1912,
0:43.6	the year the world discovered Antarctica. He has not only read pretty much everything written by
0:48.9	Shackleton and his crew, but he's also been to Antarctica. His book, Ice-Din, is his own
0:55.2	harrowing story about when his scientific ship was trapped on the ice in Antarctica. Chris is also
1:01.2	the director of the Earth and Sustainability Science Research Center at the University of New
1:06.1	South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Chris, I'm so excited to talk to you today. Always great to be
1:11.3	speaking to. I really enjoyed the series. I've been so fascinated with this story and learning
1:16.4	about Ernest Shackleton and what he went through, not just on the endurance, but his two missions
1:21.6	before. And you are one of the experts. I want to talk to you about your own adventures on the ice,
1:27.6	which is so crazy. But first, I want to know more about Shackleton. You know so much about his
1:33.5	expeditions. When did you first hear of Ernest Shackleton and what interested you about him?
1:40.0	Oh look, I think Shackleton, for me, was really starting when I was a child. And I think for many
1:44.9	people, it was seeing the incredible photos from the expedition. And there's one that I remember
1:49.8	particularly, which has stood out. And it was this extraordinary image of the endurance
1:54.7	locked up in the sea ice against a pitch dark and that freezing winter night just sort of
2:01.0	defined against the pack ice. And it was of course a photo taken by Frank Hurley. And he just
2:06.3	captured a whole range of those amazing emotions being down in Antarctica without even having
2:10.8	beane, you know, the danger of a sense of isolation. And as a young boy, I was just like, wow,
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