Endurance

Alfred Lansing 1959

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
Antarctica survival endurance exploration

Our Take

Shackleton's Antarctic expedition lost its ship and spent twenty-two months keeping every man alive through a sequence of improvisations that should not have worked. Lansing reconstructs it from diaries and interviews. The ending is the most unlikely happy ending in exploration history, which makes it more devastating than a tragedy.

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