Using lifeboats, the men reached the desolate shores of Elephant Island in April 1916. Knowing that no rescue would come, Shackleton and five crew members undertook an audacious 1,200-kilometer ...

On 24 April 1916 Shackleton and five of his men began an epic 800-mile open-boat voyage to South Georgia, leaving the remaining 22 men behind on Elephant Island After three frustrated rescue ...

In April 1916 they set sail on three small boats, eventually reaching Elephant Island. From here, Shackleton and five other crew members set sail again across 800 miles of arguably the world’s ...

After months spent in makeshift camps on the ice floes drifting northwards, the party took to the lifeboats to reach the inhospitable, uninhabited, Elephant Island. Shackleton and five others then ...

when they reached the uninhabited Elephant Island, about 150 miles (241 kilometers) off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

the men spent five days at sea in lifeboats before reaching Elephant Island. They landed safely but were still hundreds of miles from anyone who could help rescue them. Shackleton decided to take ...

The Chilean Navy pilot, Luis Pardo, carried out a heroic rescue of Shackleton’s men from the ill-fated Endurance, who had been trapped for many months on Elephant Island – their refuge ...