Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Patience | 2
Against The Odds
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🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men witness their ship, the Endurance, take a devastating blow against the unforgiving ice off the coast of Antarctica. The men will have to build camp and spend the winter on an ice floe. They’re unsure of how or when they’ll get home, but they’ll need to learn how to survive on desolate terrain.
Meanwhile, a hundred years later, Henry Worsley, and two other descendants of the Endurance crew, begin their own journey to re-create another Shackleton expedition. Henry thought their greatest obstacle was going to be the weather or the rough terrain, but he soon learns his crew must overcome an unrelenting mental battle.
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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. |
| 0:17.6 | It's October 18th, 1915. |
| 0:21.0 | Ernest Shackleton stands on the deck of the endurance, watching pack ice bump into the ship's sides. |
| 0:27.1 | He doesn't like the look of it. It's like the ice is testing the ship. |
| 0:32.7 | Seeing if it can find a hole in the armor, |
| 0:35.9 | they've been stuck here for nine months and lately he's been worried about the new changes in the ice |
| 0:41.4 | ever since the first jolt in the night back in August. |
| 0:45.0 | It felt like a battering ram had slammed into the ship. |
| 0:49.3 | Behind it in the distant sound of thunder like a warning from the skies. |
| 0:53.5 | It woke his men who sat up in their bunks waiting for something terrible to happen. |
| 0:59.6 | And then it was gone. |
| 1:02.5 | By September, it came back again. |
| 1:04.9 | A stealth attack in the night. |
| 1:07.3 | First, there was a shuttering blow to the stern. |
| 1:10.2 | Then, creeks and groans from the ship. |
| 1:14.1 | It went on for hours. It left the men unsettled. |
| 1:17.9 | But now it's October and the weather is warming. |
| 1:22.6 | The sun is back after months of endless nights. |
| 1:25.8 | And for the first time since the ship has been trapped in the ice, |
| 1:29.0 | it's floating free in a small pool of water. |
| 1:32.0 | If it continues like this, they could sail out in the next couple weeks. |
| 1:37.5 | Maybe. |
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