![]() ![]() ![]() The aim was to complete an 1800-mile Trans-Antarctic expedition to cross the continent from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea via the South Pole. In 1914, after being inundated with over 5,000 applicants for the journey, Ernest Shackleton and 27 other men set out on the adventure of a lifetime. Some find it by pushing the limits of physical endurance to a place where they can only be sustained by something greater than themselves. Or perhaps, as Alfred Lansing tells us in Endurance Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, some are simply unwilling “to succumb to the demands of everyday life,” thus earning them the moniker “immature and irresponsible.” Personally, I believe we’re all striving to discover the divine and understand the purpose and meaning of our existence. What makes a man decide to “make one heap of all his winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss?” Perhaps we’ll never know the answer to that question, but many men, as well as women, have courageously rushed in where angels fear to tread seemingly all for the thrill of adventure. ![]() By Alfred Lansing (Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., New York Copyright 1959 ISBN 0-7867-0621-X) ![]()
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