On 24 April 1916 Shackleton and five of his men began an epic 800-mile open-boat voyage to South Georgia, leaving the remaining 22 men behind on Elephant Island After three frustrated rescue ...

The account of Shackleton’s journey to Elephant Island, then in the James Caird to South Georgia, the crossing of South Georgia and his four subsequent attempts to rescue the remainder of his ...

In Ernest Shackleton's view, there was only one course of action. Never mind that it was an act of desperation. He and a few of his men would have to leave Antarctica's Elephant Island and summon ...

One hundred years on, another Antarctic chef Gerard Baker, uncovers the extraordinary life led by Charles Green and his version of two years cooking for the men of the Endurance. One of the greatest ...

Shackleton and crew were able to escape the doomed vessel and take refuge on Elephant Island. Ernest Shackleton and crew head out from Elephant Island in a makeshift open sea craft. Following a ...

Endurance became a camp, with no choice but to drift ... With very limited choice, Shackleton made for Elephant Island; a desperately remote, uninhabited place. Bag 16 sees the building of ...