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Endurance shackleton's incredible voyage alfred lansing
Endurance shackleton's incredible voyage alfred lansing








endurance shackleton

It will make your daily grind seem like a daily paradise. This is one of the stories that will reset your perspective on what the human animal is capable of and I highly recommend you avail yourself of the opportunity to reboot your mind-set. Now I’m not a non-fiction, survival story expert, but this has to be pretty close to the absolute limit of human endurance, both physically and psychologically. Holy persevering manliness Batman, I was wincing, shuddering and cringing just reading about this ordeal from the creaturey comfort of my toasty, warm bed while maintaining a glass of wine within reaching distance.

endurance shackleton

Stranded for over a year in the most inhospitable climate on the face of the Earth, literally one tiny step away from complete disaster due to starvation, extreme weather or the ice flows on which they lived deciding to crack and deposit into the freezing depths below. * Psst.don’t mention this to my wife as she thinks she took care of this years ago. Behold.the gentleman whose exploits crushed the last vestiges of manhood from my fragile psyche*:










Endurance shackleton's incredible voyage alfred lansing