Quotes About Resilience

They rowed for about ten minutes, then Shackleton spotted a small cove in the cliffs to starboard.

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

Shackleton came to the conclusion that instead of sailing to Leith Harbor

In appearance, the Endurance was beautiful by any standards.

Shackleton, Crean, and Worsley went to work leveling the floor of the cave with some loose stones and dry tussock grass.

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

Shackleton decided they would sail the Caird to the head of King Haakon Bay, a distance of about 6 miles.

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

The only superfluous item Shackleton permitted was Worsley's diary.

It was one-thirty in the afternoon when the crews scrambled on board each boat;

The James Caird was in the lead with Shackleton at the tiller.

after a few minutes Worsley angrily cut it loose.

Thus, while Shackleton was undeniably out of place, even inept, in a great many everyday situations

When she had been abandoned twenty-five days before, it had seemed that she would sink at any moment.

Yet now that the journey was done, sanctuary was ironically denied them.

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

If they were to get out—they had to get themselves out.

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

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

Shackelton rushed aft and took over the lines of the tiller from Crean.

just to be in his presence was an experience. It was what made Shackleton so great a leader.

The Endurance is crushed between the floes, October 24, 1915 (Royal Geographic Society) Frank Wild surveys the wreck of the Endurance on November 8, 1915, during their last official visit to the wreck (Royal Geographic Society)

But since the Endurance was designed to operate in relatively loose pack ice

she was not constructed so as to rise out of pressure to any great extent.