Quotes About Challenge

Lat. 65°43' South—73 miles North drift. The most cheerful

They had been the underdog, fit only to endure the punishment inflicted on them. But sufficiently provoked, there is hardly a creature on God's earth that ultimately won't turn and attempt to fight, regardless of the odds.

By the time they reached the boat her rudder had already been torn off.

press on around the coast to Leith Harbor. But the Caird's rudder was now lost.

of which the forward one was square-rigged

not one man had ever crossed the island—for the simple reason that it could not be done.

while the after two carried fore-and-aft sails, like a schooner.

Shackleton said he would make the journey with Worsley and Crean as soon as it seemed feasible.

wave-tossed cockleshells, and, finally, we've

Their floe, which had once measured a mile in diameter, was now less than 200 yards across.

adding up to a total thickness of 7 feet, 1 inch.

and so tough that it cannot be worked with ordinary tools.

At twelve-forty, Shackleton gave the order in a quiet voice. "Launch the boats.

The encircling ice fouled the oars, and collisions were unavoidable

after a few minutes Worsley angrily cut it loose.

It had been very nearly a year since they had last been in contact with civilization

they were primarily pulling boats, designed for rowing, not sailing.

Before long the rain turned into sleet, then hail that drummed across the decking.

Shackleton estimated the shelf ice off the Palmer Peninsula—the nearest known land—to be 182 miles WSW of them.

No choice remained but to hoist sail and try to claw their way offshore into the teeth of this fiendish gale.

And they realized at once that it lay directly in their path.

However, on the trip from London to Buenos Aires

The simple act of sailing had carried him beyond the world of reversals, frustrations, and inanities. And in the space of a few short hours, life had been reduced from a highly complex existence, with a thousand petty problems, to one of the barest simplicity in which only one real task remained—the achievement of the goal.

They looked up against the darkening sky and saw the fog curling over the edge of the ridges, perhaps 2,000 feet above them—and they felt that special kind of pride of a person who in a foolish moment accepts an impossible dare—then pulls it off to perfection.