Outside covered that Shackleton fervor, and in 2003 contributor Brad Wieners reported on two competing teams of UK explorers who sought, unsuccessfully, to find Endurance. And over the years, there have been multiple attempts to re-create Shackleton’s journey-in 2013 Australian adventurer Tim Jarvis sailed from Antarctica to South Georgia Island aboard a replica of the James Caird and then crossed South Georgia Island on foot. Actor Kenneth Branagh played Shackleton in a 2002 film for British television American documentary series Nova sent a film crew to Antarctica and hired mountaineers Reinhold Messner, Conrad Anker, and Stephen Venables to trek across South Georgia Island. ![]() Alexander’s book, which drew on new source material, birthed two separate Shackleton documentary films, and more media projects followed in its wake. In 1998, British author Caroline Alexander published T he Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition. Shackleton and his men have been the subject of much media fervor throughout the last century, and this latest flurry of Shackleton media comes more than two decades after the tale experienced a worldwide revival. The story still resonates with readers more than a century later: the sinking of Endurance amid the pack ice the bone-rattling conditions on Elephant Island the improbable 800-mile journey across windblown seas in the 22-foot James Caird the mountainous trek across South Georgia Island to finally raise a rescue party. ![]() ![]() The recent discovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurancehas thrust his epic tale of Antarctic survival into the limelight once again.
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