ENDURANCE22: A Story of Antarctic Survival Part 1

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🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In late 1914, the charismatic and brilliant explorer Ernest Shackleton led 27 men on a voyage to cross Antarctica from one side to the other. But what should have been a successful expedition turned into a two-year nightmare of hardship and catastrophe when their vessel the Endurance was crushed in the Weddell Sea pack-ice and sunk. Stranded with no ship, no contact with the outside world and limited supplies, it would be up to the men to find their own way back to civilisation.

This is the first part of a special mini-series that dramatically retells the extraordinary story of the 1915 Endurance Expedition.

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Presented by Dan Snow, written and produced by Mariana Des Forges. Shackleton's diary is read by Dan Aspel and produced by Thomas Ntinas.

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0:00.0	The lure of the ice is a strange and powerful thing.
0:11.9	American explorer Robert Perry.
0:18.1	Explorers call it the great white silence.
0:22.6	The most remote and unforgiving place on earth Antarctica.
0:33.4	It's a desert of ice and wind, too harsh for humans to inhabit permanently.
0:40.8	The southern ocean that girdles it has some of the roughest coldest waters on the planet.
0:47.0	Bad weather is the norm.
0:48.8	Low pressure systems rip across the ocean like runaway freight trains, with no land to
0:54.2	get in the way.
0:55.6	80 mile an hour winds whip up a mountain of seas 50 feet high.
1:01.6	Even today, 10 days sailing from the nearest port in Argentina or South Africa means 10
1:08.4	days from rescue.
1:10.0	But Antarctica is breathtaking.
1:15.9	This landscape is dominated by majestic ice cliffs that rise dramatically hundreds of
1:20.4	feet out of the sea.
1:22.9	Beyond the pack ice, entire mountain ranges are buried under snow, and for the few that
1:27.1	are visible, only the very top break the surface.
1:30.4	Extraordinary wildlife thrives on land and sea.
1:34.9	And Antarctica is at once splendorous, mystifying and deadly.
1:54.5	At the turn of the 20th century, European explorers were desperate to conquer this magnificent
1:59.0	continent, including the blue-eyed Irish-born Ernest Shackelton.
2:04.5	The expedition leader, Sir Ernest Shackelton, is an ambitious 40-year-old Anglo-Irish
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