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Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ – The Power of Navigation

It took me a few months (school readings and work got in the way) but I finally finished Alfred Lansing’s classic account of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated attempt to cross the South Pole—”Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage”. By the end of the book, the entire unbelievable story had me thinking: Could a crew today survive a similar situation? Continue reading Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ – The Power of Navigation