Give me Shackleton every time
May 8th 2008 "Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results."
Thus said Sir Ernest Shackleton, leader of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914 (better known as the Endurance expedition) and star of one of history's most stirring tales of triumph over extreme hardship. There have been umpteen books written about the Endurance expedition but it's a story that never pales in
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