Quotes About Endurance

Their tongues were swollen with thirst

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

with the possible exception of the Fram, the vessel used by Fridtjof Nansen, and later by Amundsen.

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)

so that if the ice closed in against her she would be squeezed up and out of the pressure.

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.

They thus remained almost motionless, while their supply of meat dwindled alarmingly.

At the thought of losing Grus, a puppy born a year before on the Endurance, Macklin reflected:

Then, in a quiet, level voice, Shackleton ordered Wild to shoot his own team along with McIlroy's, Marston's, and Crean's.

unsuspectingly around the ice hummock to his death with his tail wagging.

Shackleton decided to spare Greenstreet's team of year-old puppies "for the present

In a tired hand he concluded the entry: "My dogs will be shot tomorrow.

and the Endurance lay in a small pool of open water—truly afloat for the first time since she was beset nine months before.

Hurley's team though, including the leader, Shakespeare, the biggest of all the dogs, was shot.

a party of eighteen under Wild should start out early the next morning to bring up the Stancomb Wills.

But at five o'clock they knew it was time to give up. She was done, and nobody needed to tell them.

The Stancomb Wills was safe in camp by one o'clock.

Shackleton immediately asked Macklin if he felt too tired to go back again to Ocean Camp

Alexandra of England. Shackleton carried the Bible in his hand as he left the Endurance

where the stores left in 1902 should still be.

On February 9, Shackleton wrote: "No seals. Must reduce blubber consumption . . . oh for a touch of dry land under our feet.

stewed penguin heart, liver, eyes, tongues, toes & God knows what else, with a cup of water" to wash it down.

All hands were put to the slaughter, bringing in every penguin that could be reached.