28 Men Trapped in Antarctic Ice. All 28 Came Home: The True Story of Shackleton's Endurance

Tales of Life: Ordinary People, Extraordinary True Stories · Oct 6, 2026 · 11m

(05:08) Elephant Island

(04:14) Camps on the ice

(03:27) Leaving the ship

(02:23) Frozen in

(01:40) By endurance we conquer

(00:54) A man who turned back

(00:00) The Boss may come today

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This is the story of a ship lost in the ice, almost two years at the end of the world, and a leader who made sure nobody was left behind.

In January 1915 the sea ice of the Weddell Sea closed around Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance. Nine months later it crushed her. Twenty-eight men camped on the drifting ice, rowed to a bare rock called Elephant Island, and waited there while Shackleton and five…