"The Incredible Objects That Saved Ernest Shackleton’s Life"
Team History Hit is currently following in the footsteps of Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, hoping to locate the shipwreck of the Endurance in the Weddell Sea.
In this video, Luke Tomes visits the National Maritime Museum to see a recently exhibited sledge recovered from Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition (1907-09). He also speaks to Senior Curator of Maritime Technologies, Jeremy Michell about some of the objects which saved the famous explorer’s life.
Meanwhile, Dan Snow is at Dulwich College, which houses the James Caird, a lifeboat in which Shackleton, Frank Worsley and 4 other men undertook a 1,300 kilometre journey from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands through the Southern Ocean to South Georgia as part of the rescue mission during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917.
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