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 blocks driven in the never ending vortex around the planet by shrieking gales.
A terrible place, but a place that drew the attention of the world as the last great, unexplored region. But one man who stands out is an explorer who failed in everything he set out to do, but whose toughness, his courage and his leadership has made him a legend, Sir Ernest Shackleton.
In this series, Dan Snow will be travelling to Antarctica to retrace Shackleton's most celebrated voyage, to the point at which his ship, Endurance, was crushed and sunk and retracing his remarkable journey towards safety. He will set out to understand how they lived on the ice, how they survived in this bleak, unforgiving seascape and take a deep dive into one of the most remarkable and unlikely escape stories in history.
In the first episode, Dan studies the near suicidal quest that inspired Shackleton and his crew setting out on my own journey south. He'll trace it all the way to the point when their ship was encased in ice, cut off entirely from a world that was engulfed in war. This is the story of Endurance, her crew and Shackleton's astonishing journey.
Up Next in Season 1
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Shackleton: The Story of Endurance Ep...
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 Ep...
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...
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Battleships of the Second World War
Today in a special collaboration with World of Warships our favourite naval historian Dan Snow ranks his favourite battleships of WW2.
From the gigantic Yamato, to the humble yet deadly HMS Warspite. Dan scores each battleship on spec, historical impact and arguable the most important - it's aw...
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