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The Lost Voyage: Shackleton’s Endurance Disaster

One ship. 28 men. 497 days in the ice.

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to achieve the last great prize of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration: crossing the white continent on foot. Instead, his ship, the Endurance, was trapped and eventually crushed by pack ice, leaving his crew stranded thousands of miles from civilization with no means of communication.

The History Labyrinth is an immersive, narrative podcast that chronicles one of history’s most harrowing—and inspiring—survival stories. We follow the crew of the Endurance as they battle sub-zero temperatures, psychological…

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