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Shackleton: The Story of Endurance
Episode 1
Part 1 of 3.
Explorers called it the 'Great White Silence', an inhospitable continent of rock, ice and snow on which no human has stepped until just over 100 years ago. Girdled by an ocean packed with shifting ice and beyond that, the roughest oceans on the planet with waves as tall as apartment...
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Shackleton: The Story of Endurance Episode 2
Episode 2
Part 2 of 3.
Throughout this series, Dan Snow is retracing Shackleton’s most famous voyage, taking a deep dive into one of the most remarkable and unlikely escape stories in history.
In this second episode, Dan is in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, exploring in the wake of Endurance, Shackleton’s ...
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Shackleton: The Story of Endurance Episode 3
Episode 3
The extraordinary story of Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance reaches its almost unimaginable conclusion.
In this special History Hit project, Dan Snow completes his Antarctic journey in the wake of Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition of 1914-16.
We have already seen how their ship, Endur...