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Marathon Training Academy
"shackleton" Discussed on Marathon Training Academy
"Right, so now we're gonna talk about leading the body in our conversation around running as self leadership. The first point we wanna discuss is this idea of leaning into discomfort. Purposely seeking out discomfort and challenges. It reminds me of this thing I saw on the Internet floating around. It was earnest Shackleton's classified ad when he was going to sail to the South Pole and the Shackleton stories just amazing, you know, their ship got stuck in the ice and then they had to go for miles and miles across the ice and he was a great leader and all the men survived, but the classified ad when he was getting his crew together read men wanted for hazardous journey, low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness, safe return doubtful, honor and recognition in event of success. So there you go. I don't think I would have replied to that ad, but. But he got lots of replies. Yeah, he got the kind of guys that he needed to find. So as long distance runners were purposely choosing to do hard things, putting ourselves in that process, building up our immunity toward obstacles. I mean, if you've run a marathon, it's not such a big deal if you have to take the stairs, right? Right. Park in the back of the parking lot. I remember I was out with my family one time and I was with my parents and our youngest son and he was even younger back then and we were doing a swamp tour in Louisiana and we were walking on this boardwalk and we walked a couple of miles and then everyone was hot and tired and they had their sandals on and you know people don't want to walk back so I just said, oh, I'll just go get the car and like are you sure it's like two miles away. I'm like y'all just run there two miles is nothing. So I just ran and got the car. I mean, who does that? Runners? Runners are always thinking, you know, you see a sign like a town is 13 miles away and you're like, yeah, I could run there..
Against The Odds
"shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"It's been more than sixteen months. Since he's senior living plant and the green looks even more vibrant and he saw his dreams and then the sound of a deep rumble and seasprite spray shooting into the air. Reeves ahead there too. Close shackleton knew it would be dangerous the closer they got to shore but it's worse than he thought. There seemed to be jagged reefs everywhere. The cared won't last ten seconds if we head towards those crine takeover so wars leeann. I can look at the math but none of the options. Look good finally shackleton says when neither wants to hear we'll have to head back out to sea wait for a better shot at it. An hour later clouds roll in in another storm. Russia's in at eleven o'clock the wind turns into a gale force and tosses the boat back and forth water splashes onto the deck like gunshots threatening to throw everyone. Overboard shackleton has lived through so many of these storms by now. He's almost defiant but his hours take past knows. There's one thing that makes this storm different somewhere to close by. Are those breakers. The roar of the breaking waves is even louder and the storm wars lee sits at the helm bracing for impact. We won't clear the bottom boss. The boat will be torn out from under us then. Miraculously the wind ships. But it's not until four. pm the following day at shackleton sees a small gap in the reeks skipper. This is it we need to go in. Men take down the sales and get on the oars a swell pushes the boat forward here. Roar of the waves breaking against the shore and then above the boat has grabbed onto the bottom shackleton leaks overboard rabs onto a rope and fights through the way is pulling the boat in behind when he's a few feet from the rocky beach he calls out all men off. It's surprisingly quiet. Is the men drop over the sides and wade toward dry land. The enormity of what they have just done hasn't sunk in. It's been five hundred twenty two days because they left the very island on a mission to explore a continent of antarctica. Now they're back safe at least for the moment shackleton shakes each of the men's hands and then looks around there on the opposite side of the island from any of the whaling stations without a to across towering cliffs loom over their heads some nearly ten thousand feet high if they're going to reach.
Against The Odds
"shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"It's midnight on may fifth nineteen sixteen. Ernest shackleton squats at the helm of james cared trying to balance himself on the rocking boat. They've been at sea for eleven days. He knew the eight hundred mile. Crossing to south georgia. Island would be dangerous. But he's never seen anything as fierce as the drake passage. The winds have been coming at them at one hundred miles an hour. The waves are almost twenty feet tall each swell grabs the boat lifting at higher and higher for the boiling surf into the air. One moment they're surrounded by hills of water the next there on top of the world overlooking an endless seascape of dark grey rollers and white horses. And then they're hurtling back down. Below water crashes over the sides and sends a small crew into a frenzy to bail before the next one hits one way was so violent it ripped the boats anchor. Clear away shackleton marches wars lee struggling with the rudder trying to control the boat through the gusts and the snowfall is only. Compasses dead. Reckoning and the occasional glimpse of a star they both know if they boat off. Course they could miss south georgia entirely. And never be heard of again skipper. Altaic take the rudder. You get some sleep ex-boss maybe i'll lay down for an hour. Shackleton is left alone at the front of the boat. He watches the angry black clouds. Churn across the horizon and suddenly sees a silver light in the sky. Weather's clearing boys. And then he. Here's the familiar hiss. It's not a break in the clouds. It's the foaming crest of a wave. The biggest wave. He's seen in his life and it's heading straightforward.
Against The Odds
Ernest Shackleton: Surviving Antarctica
"It's midnight on may fifth nineteen sixteen. Ernest shackleton squats at the helm of james cared trying to balance himself on the rocking boat. They've been at sea for eleven days. He knew the eight hundred mile. Crossing to south georgia. Island would be dangerous. But he's never seen anything as fierce as the drake passage. The winds have been coming at them at one hundred miles an hour. The waves are almost twenty feet tall each swell grabs the boat lifting at higher and higher for the boiling surf into the air. One moment they're surrounded by hills of water the next there on top of the world overlooking an endless seascape of dark grey rollers and white horses. And then they're hurtling back down. Below water crashes over the sides and sends a small crew into a frenzy to bail before the next one hits one way was so violent it ripped the boats anchor. Clear away shackleton marches wars lee struggling with the rudder trying to control the boat through the gusts and the snowfall is only. Compasses dead. Reckoning and the occasional glimpse of a star they both know if they boat off. Course they could miss south georgia entirely. And never be heard of again skipper. Altaic take the rudder. You get some sleep ex-boss maybe i'll lay down for an hour. Shackleton is left alone at the front of the boat. He watches the angry black clouds. Churn across the horizon and suddenly sees a silver light in the sky. Weather's clearing boys. And then he. Here's the familiar hiss. It's not a break in the clouds. It's the foaming crest of a wave. The biggest wave. He's seen in his life and it's heading straightforward.
Against The Odds
"shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"The boat dips below wave completely disappearing sale and all henry wars lee watches his breath freeze in the air. He still can't believe he's standing in the exact same spot. That ernest shackleton stood one hundred years before he looks at the baron ice around them. It seems to stretch out forever. Amazing that this very point a place they've dreamed about for five years looks well. It looks exactly like the rest of antarctica. Adams will later say what is an artika other than a blank canvas on which you seek to impose yourself. It's so cold will and adams stamp their feet in place. Take the picture already. General henry peers through the view finder and pulls out a photo. He has to get it right. The photo he holds is of ernest shackleton. Frank wild and jameson. Atoms standing right were his teammates. Stand now a union. Jack flag flaps in the wind next to them the three men are bundled in their parkas. Their faces obscured by ice. Henry has been planning how he would recreate this photo. Ever since he first saw it he takes off his mittens. For just a minute to screws camera onto a tripod in the wind bites into his bare hands. Okay a little to the left atoms. That's where your great grandfather stood gal. You're in the middle. Where wild stood henry heads over to stand in shackleton's place on the right okay. Everyone one two three to think shackleton made it all the way here and then had to turn back. Henry is already bone tired and they still have another ninety seven miles to go but there will be a plane at the south pole waiting to take them out. Shackleton didn't have that luxury he's still had walked the same distance back and his men were falling apart the night before. He made his final track here. He was already showing doubt they'd make it much farther. Henry remembers the lines from shackleton's diary. I must look at the matter sensibly and consider the lives of those who are with me. I feel that if we go on too far it will be impossible to get back over the surface and then all the results will be lost to the world. If shackleton had gone on and not made it back. Henry wouldn't be here now. His hero was right to turn back but he can't imagine how agonizing choice must have been. He set aside his ego impossible. Glory to save his men. It's getting colder by the minute so they quickly pitched their tent and climb inside. Someone puts on the kettle then. They sit there staring at each other. Big city grins on their faces. There's nothing to say. Henry lays back in his bag and folds his arms under his head. What an accomplishment. He grabs the sat phone and calls his wife. We did it. Joanna as he listens to his teammates call home with the news. A feeling of relief washes over him like the weight. He's been carrying his lifted off his shoulders his fear of letting others down and the fear of failing himself. Tomorrow though meet the rest of the team that's flying in from chile to descendants of the original crew and three others including matty mcnair their trainer before he falls asleep. Henry open shackleton's diary. It's kept him company. This entire journey january tenth nineteen o nine is the day shackleton turned back on this day. A hundred years later henry will go forward to the poll. He will no longer be following in his hero's footsteps. The journey henry makes from now on will be his own. Shackleton stands next to frank wisely watching elephant island fades out of view then he faces forward in claps wordsley on the back he needs to concentrate on the journey ahead. How she looking. Skipper headed south windsor. Good for several hours. It's smooth sailing and then at two pm. They meet a gentle grouping of ice big chunks as old as time as smaller fragments passed by the boat. They make a whispering sound as they jostle against one. Another beneath them. The sea is a deep dark blue. It's other worldly as night falls. Shackleton sends the four crewmen to the hold to get some sleep. Skipper and i will keep watch then. Wars leeann shackleton huddled together on the deck saying nothing as they take in the silence far off in the distance behind them shackleton can still see the dusty shadow of the island where he left twenty two men. If anything happens to this boat no one will ever know his mentor out there. The burden of responsibility feels like a ten ton weight. We've had some great adventures together. Haven't we skipper. This one could be the greatest of all but do you really think we can beat the odds or xlii looks up. If you can't pull through. I don't know who can shackleton's still feels uneasy. You know. I've always been against dividing the that i do the wrong thing. Wars lee sits quietly listening. I hated being forced into that decision. But someone needed to go for help. I could not put that responsibility on another. They understand boss. Maybe wars lease right. So why can't he shake. This doubt. He's not used to this feeling being at cnn. A small boat has unnerved him. The land is familiar. He's proven himself. There fought the elements and learned that the wind eventually dies down the ice cracks. But the c. Is its own beast. It knows no boundaries chooses who gets through and who doesn't the best shackleton can hope for is that the sea will let them live moore's lee size see might be powerful boss but there's always a way through just look at the stars. Shackleton looks up the twinkling lights. It's magical very few men have seen. this site. Worsley stretches his arms over his head and then gets up. I'm gonna get some sleep before the drake passage. You good out here alone. All good skipper. Thank you the. Drake passage is legendary among sailors. It's simply the most dangerous water in the world. The old sailors speak of waves. Ninety feet tall intent on taking out everything in their wake. The drake passage is where shackleton will.
Against The Odds
"shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"It's early morning on april twentieth. Nineteen sixteen ernest. Shackleton hasn't slept on light the blizzard still hasn't let up and there's a decision to be made his called for his most trusted men wars and wild to consult with him. The plan isn't new. They talked about it backward and forward long into the nights on the flow all the men. No it's coming to shackleton has always been transparent with them so gentlemen. Let's go over our three options again. He watches as frank wars. -ly unrolls his map and begins pointing it at dark spots in the sea. So we've got horn. That's the closest it's five hundred miles north west of here. Then there's port stanley part of the falklands. That's just a ways. Further but due north the problem with both of those is we'll be sailing against the current and right into the wind at the mention of wind is if on cue. Driving gust hits their tent. Shackleton laughs. Maybe that's a sign so we still all agree that south georgia island is our best bet. Say eight hundred miles northeast spot. Were the endurance began. I agree. We'll have the winds on our side most of the time. Anyway wild cox eyebrow. I guess that's all we've got. What none of them say is that the chances of making it to south georgia alive are slim. Even if the wind's cooperate. Eight hundred miles is a long way to sail. The drake passage is known for its storms and strong ocean currents the wild season. The area are legendary now which men should go and which stay behind even though everyone knows this will be a dangerous journey. Most want to go spending months on elephant island waiting for help and not knowing if it will ever come is too much to bear. More xlii has to go. that's given. There's no better captain on stormy seas and even for him it will be difficult shackled him a lead that leaves four spots looks too wild for his input injured and we have to stay. Obviously and macklin is doctor and who need to treat them. I think what we need to consider here is who are the strongest who will be the most likely to help the boat through those sees the three of them discuss each member of the crew over and over who is strong enough to row eight hundred miles if the boat starts taking on water. Who'll be able to fix it. Who has the best temperament to stay here on the island waiting for a rescue crew. Who might stir up trouble if they stayed by the time. The rest of the men have woken up. Shackleton has top picks mind but he can't order anyone to come on such a dangerous mission. He will need to ask for volunteers. He finds most of the men out on the rocks. Skinning penguins and snow blows around them. Shackleton sits down and joins them. I'm sure it'll come as no surprise with this weather. That have made a decision. We need to get help as soon as we can. I will need four men. I don't ask anyone to come. Who has not thoroughly. Wade there chances. There's a good chance we won't make it. The moment shackleton stop speaking every single man steps forward. Go boss count me in. Shackleton looks at all their faces he has moved by their dedication their commitment their willingness to give up their lives. Finally he says simply. Thank you men captain. Wars lee will navigate clean. Benson and mccarthy will need your strength and mcneish if the boquets damaged with your excellent carpentry skills you'll be are mad two of the men immediately head for the beach. we'll get to work on building some decking daqing will protect the crew from the elements while you sleep. Shackleton watches them go then he speaks in a quiet voice for those of you. Who are staying. I want you to know. I will do everything in my power to bring back. A rescue ship shackleton looks up at the sky. He just hopes for all their sake. The blizzard dies down of had my cat cay schmear for four years now and he is my best friend. He is incredible. And i think he is the best kitty on this planet but i'm bias but as much as i love my cat. I'm not fond of the stink bombs. They leave in their litter box. Everything from cleaning to covering up. The smell can be a constant battle. That's why i'm excited to be trying out pretty litter pretty litter is kitty litter. Reinvented unlike traditional litter. Pretty litter superlight crystals trap odor and released moisture resulting in dry low maintenance litter. That doesn't smell pretty litter arrive safely at my door. In a small lightweight bag that lasts up to a month and shipping is free but above all else. Here's why pretty litter is a pet parents. Hero it's a health indicator pretty litter monitors my cats health by changing colors when detects potential underlying issues. Get the world's smartest litter without leaving home by visiting pretty litter dot com and use the promo code the odds for twenty percent off your first order. That's pretty litter dot com promo code. The odds for twenty percent off pretty.
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"shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"Wider. Finally they managed to get her out. They sit on the flow breathing. Hard listening to the sounds of ice moving in the distance and then it stops two hours later the crack closes up as if it were never there for the next morning i splits again this time. It's wider there now. Open patches of water running through the flow and more are forming. It's a full scale attack. Their flow is disintegrating beneath that shackleton runs through the camp strike. The tents get the boats ready. The men quickly rushed into action ripping down the tents and stuffing their supplies. Two packs as they run for the sledge's deep fissures form under their feet. They quickly pushed the boats to the etch behind them. The ice splits again shackleton looks back. It's the exact spot where his tent was resting just a few minutes before. Finally the men managed to get the boats into the water. They stand on alert waiting for the order. Shackleton knows once he gives it there will be no turning back if they launch. The pack could close in in crush them inside the boats but if they stay the ice could break up beneath them throwing them into the frigid waters. At twelve forty pm he gives the command launched the boats benign push off the flow into the ic channels of water opened up around them breeding a turquoise maze that winds out into the ocean in a matter of minutes weaving through the pack heading for the open water behind them. Is slams shut. Camp patience is bond. Shackleton looks out into the haze distance..
Against The Odds
"shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"Last episode sir. Ernest shackleton and his crew of twenty seven men witness ship. The endurance crushed by the unforgiving. Ice off the coast of antarctica. When it sank the men were forced to build camp and spend the winter on ice floe. Now it's been ten months of waiting for the ice to melt and they're still here unsure of how or when they'll get home. Meanwhile one hundred years later. Henry wars and to other descendants of the endurance crew begin their own journey to recreate another shackleton's expedition their goal to trek across antarctica. Eight hundred miles on foot to reach the south pole but what henry is learning is that their greatest obstacle isn't the weather or rough terrain. It's themselves this is episode three.
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"shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"It's been a tough go to keep everyone's spirits up. No one expected they would still be here on the ice after days of attempting to get through the mushy snow with nine. Hundred pound. sledge's shackleton called the twenty seven men together said they had to stop and set up camp. The ice was bigger than that. The priority now is food. They have maybe fifty days of provisions left time to begin the hunt for penguins and seals. But so far. They've had little luck just a handful of seals and one emperor penguin. It's a start but they'll need more if they're going to survive. One of the most enthusiastic hunters or lease lease was a royal marine before he joined the expedition specifically requested by ernest. Shackleton as a motor expert is not the easiest guy to get along with. He likes to be alone and do things his own way. Most hunting trips. He goes out with the others but comes back alone with tall tales of chasing seal or assiting. Penguins while depreciates lease high spirits. He's also frustrated. He's warned him a hundred times not to travel alone. Anything could happen out there and this afternoon. He's done it again. The other men returned without lease wild size and heads back to his tent to grab some gear. It gets close to twilight only to look for the man himself and that's when he hears crack vice and shouts from the edge of camp help. Wild burn your gun. Wild grabs his rifle and starts running towards the sounds. You a quarter of a mile away. He sees lee's skien towards camp. It looks like he's being chased by a demon her sea bird. The brown spotted sea. Leopard is huge. It's at least twelve feet long and moves fast like a snake across the ice one snap of its jaws could break a man's leg and while runs toward the cries cursing under his breath. What is leased doing out there on his own again while tracks the animal with his gun. But it's still too far away to take a shot then out of nowhere. It dives into the water between the two. Ice floes lease. Look of fear turnstile puzzlement. Something isn't right suddenly see leopard rupp's out of the water and white in front of lease it lunges vicious snapping its jaws. It's so close while see the glint of sun and water on its enormous teeth leave rears back and swings to the right desperately trying to ski away. The sea levered launch up into the ice and resumes chase right behind her wild screams in frustration. Faster man faster. The seal turns its head and catches wild in its sights. It throws the front of his long body. Into the air and roars. Wild takes deep breath and drops to his knees. The animal charges forward. Closer and closer until wild concede down the road study study wild walks over to inspect the animal bigger than he thought. It must weigh over a thousand pounds. Here's distant cheers from the men. Billy well tonight lease go until the boss and get a dog team together. We're going to need help. Dragging this thing to camp lease grins. It's a good day in the end but wild knows the meat from the sea lion only last a few weeks and then what will they do. Winter is coming that night when wild lays down. His sleeping bag is wet. It feels around. The snow is melting immediately. Goes to shackleton's tent whole flow is starting to melt around us. We can't stay here much longer. Boss shackleton nods. He's had the same thought when the men exit the tent. They're surprised to find lee's he tells them in his solo scouting missions. He found a new better. Ice flowed pitch camp on. It's only one hundred fifty yards southeast. Few weeks later there settled in. They dubbed the new spot patients cam. Because that's what they'll need here. The waiting game will begin again either. The ice pack will open up and let their boats through or they'll die here in the frozen tundra. Where will twenty twenty one take you with a degree from university of maryland global campus. It could take you far and accredited state university you. 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Against The Odds
"shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"Been over a month since they set up camp and the numbers don't lie. They've been drifting east away from land. Ice flows like a frozen ship with no rudder a bottle on the sea being tossed about the whim of the currents so far. They've been lucky it's summer and the men have been able to capture penguins and seals to supplement their food supplies but in a few short months the sun will set and it will be dark for months. The wildlife will disappear. They won't survive the winter with the food they have left. He knows if he and his men are going to get out. They'll need to walk but it's going to be risky. The transport the boats the sledges across the ice floes the boats way almost thousand pounds with the sledge's more and not all the ice floes are as thick as the one. They've been camped on all it takes is one split in the right place and the lose the rest of their rations or worse. Some of the men but it's their only course if they stay they die. Shackleton grabs his hat and stepped into a gentle breeze. He has to blink a few times and looks at the tents spread out across the white. It almost looks like an alaskan mining camp. Each tent is surrounded by stacks of crates with piles of ropes shovels pick axles. Each tent is surrounded by stacks of crates with piles of ropes shovels and pickaxes the cooks galley tent belches brown smoke the smell in the air is a mix of smoke blubber sweat and dog off to the side. Someone has strung up the for lines sleeping bags for an airing. There's a comfort here in the routine early morning breakfast walked the dogs lunch. It's so tempting to stay it safety. But shackleton knows it's just an illusion walks through the camp rattling ten flaps. Let's gather in the main tent. He sure the men must have considered the option of leaving discussed it in their tencent night but he is the leader. It's his choice to make delivers his final order with a grave. Face were leaving. We can't take all of our supplies so before we go. You can eat as much as you'd like or going to celebrate christmas early. Shackleton watches as smiles are exchanged a big feed. But more importantly they're going to do something. No more waiting around the weeks ahead of them will be brutal full of hard work but he knows it's their only option. He has to keep pushing west. There is land out there and with it safety. We get support from carmax. These days there are plenty of reasons to sell your car. Maybe it's a new job with the new commute or maybe a growing family or maybe it's just time to upgrade your ride. No matter wire selling the folks at carmax make it easy to say goodbye with a real offer in two minutes or less. Just answer a few simple questions. At carmax dot com. And you'll get a real offer for your car. That's good for seven days. Plenty of time to think it over and explore your options and the folks at carmax will buy your car even if you don't buy there's whether you're trading in or selling take two minutes and find out what your car is worth with a real offer from carmax learn more today.
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"shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"Chippy mcnish wades through the water in the bowels of the endurance. He knew the ice was bad but he can't believe the ships been hit. Water is pouring in. Chippy is a master carpenter if something needs fixing he does it. But there's no fixing mets rushes back to the main cabin defined shackleton sir. It's no use. it's gushing. I checked the hand pumps to their frozen shut. Shackleton nods okay. We need to get it contained. Seal off the back of the ship. We have to stop it from coming in should be hers away. Shackleton watches him go and then begins barking orders to the rest of the men. Everything boils down to three main tasks the enclosure the pumps and pushing back the ice a group of men rush overboard and try to hack away at the pack to relieve the pressure on the ship but every time they dig a trench it builds up with more ids esteem. Hunger head folks. The men are having the hand pump as well. They worked through the night in ships. But after twelve hours they're exhausted. Shackleton orders them to rest and shifts. We can't let her sing. As each hour passes. The men are weaker more tired but none of them complained. They love the ship to they run from the pumps below to the ice outside but still the ice keeps coming at ten pm. It attacks side the sound of timbers breaking stop the men in their tracks at midnight it closes in and starts to spots buckle and beams crack but still men keep trying hoping to save. Her shackleton knows they've done everything they care if five. Pm he calls. Frank wars lead to the upper deck. I'm sorry skipper. But we're going to have to abandon the ship. Please tell the men as wars lee heads below. He takes one last look. At shackleton who shadowed the icy white draft. Looks like a mariner lost at sea..
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"shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"In our last episode sir. Ernest shackleton put together a crew of twenty eight men to sail from england to antarctica their goal to be the first man to cross the entirety of the frozen continent but before they could set foot on shore. Their ship was hemmed in on all sides by pathways trapping them in the middle of the sea. Now ice has attacked and their lives and their mission are state. Meanwhile almost a hundred years later three descendants shackleton's crew set off to recreate the great explorers. Nineteen oh eight tracks to the south pole. The only problem there unprepared for the challenges. That shackleton's an article will.
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"shackleton" Discussed on Against The Odds
"January night. Nineteen o nine. Ernest shackleton groans as he trudges through the hard packed snow now. A bitter headwind cuts through his jacket freezing his breath among his hands. The temperature is minus nineteen degrees pulled by any standards but with the wind chill. It's closer to minus fifty shackleton's feet and ears are covered with blisters and the black char frostbite. He's weakened by hunger and head splitting altitude sickness. He and his crew have trekked over seven hundred miles south across the vast expanse of antarctic snow their goal is to reach beyond engine the known world and be the first humans to ever reach the south pole. An expedition the public had been calling the nimrod after the name of his ship. Their journey has taken almost two and half months still before them an endless white plateau of snow and ice. The poll is out there somewhere. Shackleton has been on this continent once before six years ago. It was his first antarctic expedition under the leadership of captain robert. Scott scott was brooding and temperamental. he ruled by bullying. An absolute authority. Shackleton was the opposite. he was optimistic. Open and warm as conditions grew more difficult on that eight month journey tension was deck when frost by and low rash slowed them to a crawl. Scott yelled keep going you bloody fools but they turn back from the poll. Nearly five hundred miles out by the time shackleton got back to the ship. He was coughing up blood now. He has another shot this time. His leading a four man through and he isn't going to make scott's mistakes. The last month has been slow going. He looks at his men's haggard faces for weeks now. They've had little to eat their feet. And hands are numb. The wind doesn't help it's relentless sudden gusts blow up to eighty miles an hour like a kick in the gut each night. The icy gales whipped into the tent as they shiver inside their wet bags. They've hardly slept in the last three days and whiteout blizzards slow them to crawl but still they push on. They know what's at stake. The british empire is counting on. Mount shackleton needs to show the world and more importantly himself that this time he can make it to the south pole shackleton checks his compass for his bearings if his calculations are right they are still ninety. Seven nautical miles away from the poll at this pace. That's at least two more weeks. They don't have enough food to get there and back frank. Wild sees the look on his face. What are you thinking boss. Wild is his second in command. A small man who's incredibly strong but now his cheeks are blue from the cold. He looks exhausted. Time to take out the flag. Frank opens his bag and hands him the union jack. The silk feels surprisingly heavy in his hands. Shackleton manages smile go ahead. Frank shackleton watches. Frank stabbed the flag deep in the snow. Then he clears his throat. I hereby take possession of this area for the british empire. One of the men fires the trigger of a camera. It's proof they've made it this far. Whatever regrets shackleton has for not making all the way he knows. at least. they've done their best and he's kept his men safe then for the first time in nearly three months the men turn north to head home as they walk. Shackleton makes a silent promise once. He's paid off his debt for this trip. He'll put together another crew. He'll be back.
Against The Odds
Endurance: Surviving Antarctica
"January night. Nineteen o nine. Ernest shackleton groans as he trudges through the hard packed snow now. A bitter headwind cuts through his jacket freezing his breath among his hands. The temperature is minus nineteen degrees pulled by any standards but with the wind chill. It's closer to minus fifty shackleton's feet and ears are covered with blisters and the black char frostbite. He's weakened by hunger and head splitting altitude sickness. He and his crew have trekked over seven hundred miles south across the vast expanse of antarctic snow their goal is to reach beyond engine the known world and be the first humans to ever reach the south pole. An expedition the public had been calling the nimrod after the name of his ship. Their journey has taken almost two and half months still before them an endless white plateau of snow and ice. The poll is out there somewhere. Shackleton has been on this continent once before six years ago. It was his first antarctic expedition under the leadership of captain robert. Scott scott was brooding and temperamental. he ruled by bullying. An absolute authority. Shackleton was the opposite. he was optimistic. Open and warm as conditions grew more difficult on that eight month journey tension was deck when frost by and low rash slowed them to a crawl. Scott yelled keep going you bloody fools but they turn back from the poll. Nearly five hundred miles out by the time shackleton got back to the ship. He was coughing up blood now. He has another shot this time. His leading a four man through and he isn't going to make scott's mistakes. The last month has been slow going. He looks at his men's haggard faces for weeks now. They've had little to eat
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"shackleton" Discussed on The Science Show
"Had no way of leading them neither. They hid actually survived the crossing the southern ocean that they had managed to cross south georgia to get to the wedding station. So i think that would have been a horrible feeling for shackleton and wesleyan crane to that is christ but not being able to tell them in. They run away and it was four and a half months that took them to get back to save the in august but the man never lost heart and eventually they saw there was the ship and then of course we had the reaction. Now you'd think that with that kind of distance in that kind of mucking about they would not be recognized heroes but they were they even during the first world war as it was going on. Did people welcome them. Back in britain as conquering heroes. I need to find that out. Actually that's a really good question. I'm not sure. I suspect it would have been an extraordinary tale. That would have ended up in the newspaper. There was a lot going on at time. Obviously and in the mean were very came to help in the war effects. Which i think is amazing. After their incredible deal that they would want to go and volunteer. They went to war after all that. Yeah amazing has not yet. But i think that after the war shackleton did well actually. It was perfectly straight away. We tornado speaking circus and now he. He did a lot of speaking in new zealand. Straight off too because of course he had to go back to antarctica to pick up the men that had been left on the other side of the continent the roc- patty who had had their iron ordeal. You've say were the ones who were leaving the provision for his expedition if it had come off and they spent. I dunno over a year leaving these supplies in various parts of antarctica. Poor things and this story has saimaa much tragedy associated with it as well because they lost their ship and storm the by was blown out to say leaving him on land with very little in the way of closing equipment and food so they were able to scavenge. Enough to survive on at scott's cape evans hash on ross island and what's amazing to me is that they've found enough supplies they're from scott's previous expedition to actually provision the depots that they needed to supply shackleton weather across the continents although supplies left for no one to pick up at sei sad is not an and of course three of the mean actually. Three men of the rossi. Patty died which is not well known. People often say that shangkun's endurance expedition. That not one man was lost. That actually three main died. They went out of the core team. I've run the way all say that. I will definitely part of the expedition or joanna. I thought it a superb book and it's for everybody young and old. And even though there may have been distractions when shackled. And i came back. And of course he died at the age of forty two in heart attack in in south georgia. Who went back in to that region and becoming up to the tinari of that event. But congratulations and you'll book is wonderfully researched and absolutely enthralling. And you live with the man. And congratulations thanks so much thank you. Do you wanna go hobich in oakland. And the book is called shackleton's endurance and his published by allen and unwin..
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"shackleton" Discussed on The Science Show
"He led the men through that they grizzled a bit but they were to miss supportive and then without telling the whole story of course he went in. The biggest of the boats had lost the ship but they had three boats and they'd been on elephant island by the way. Why was it called elephant island there. No elephants in antarctica as say elephants. Oh got it okay. Right so off. They went they had to sail for. I think he's about twelve fifteen hundred kilometers and our own explorer. Tim jarvis from adelaide reenacted that a few years ago. Let's just hear a little bit from his expedition. And the film thereof as soon as you scratch the surface of this perla world you realize that is regarded as the greatest bomb numb. not any. Was it life threatening desperate miserable but it was boring and it was challenging and there was a recession extended period of took a year for the boat to sing and they were out on the ice for four months and they paddled fifty miles away promotion to the four days you know currents role wind and then he had to leave twenty two men on the island and they were thinking we may never be rescued one. Should we were together. It's a recipe to take from the other. And instead they held together every element of the journey required skills that none of the other countries possess this ability to identify with everybody understanding motivations be compassionate towards them and they need to be firm and they needed to be fun when they needed to be optimistic. It's the greatest of all time of no doubt about that. Tim jarvis in adelaide who sailed to south georgia himself and had a film crew with him but film people brought more fragile. Aren't they now when they landed in south georgia of course what happened when they reenacted with that They had a film crew with them. I think the film crew lasted about two hours because they had no idea how steep the mountains weather especially climb and one of the three free who actually then went over. The hills to the wailing station had to do all the filming of that that particular part but without saying what happened next. Of course the rescue was done. But what i didn't quite understand. I thought you know when they raise the alarm the whaling station. Everyone sort of stood by. Of course. I very willing to come and help these bedraggled almost walking cadavers. Who turned up the leader in the two two companions but then they had oss around for about two months to try to get some sort of ship go okay. It was during the first world war and because they had to be contacting london. But i had no idea that i had to stuff around quite so long. Well i think the tricky said was that they were able to secure a bugs which was tricky in terms of who would pay and would they government support but also the time of year that they were hitting end to that area. It was the middle of one turn. Of course the whole area was ice choked so even with these bugs. They managed to get three different boats. Heating that way then couldn't actually get close to elephant highland and that must have been incredibly frustrating having negotiated your way into crowing supplying these boats out of south america. They couldn't actually physically get close enough to elephant island or to communicate with these men and say. Hey we're on our way. Because they had no way of leading them neither. They hid actually survived the crossing the southern ocean that they had managed to cross south georgia to get to the wedding station. So i think that would have been a horrible feeling for shackleton and wesleyan crane to that is christ but not being able to tell them in. They run.
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"shackleton" Discussed on The Science Show
"May i was able to spend some awakaned with who going through that. Materialists is about which was just a real when fool. Guess what. I thought i knew the story. But you brought it to life in ways which was so unexpected and frankly riveting emotional but what about. Ernest shackleton himself because this irish boy who went for the family to london into college college famous private school in other words. And when did he get his leadership qualities from because at each point when there was some sort of crisis and that was almost every day he had to lead he had to be kind. He had to be insightful. Where did that child sort of genius come from. That's a really interesting question. I di- i think maybe native talent. He had certainly had plenty of interesting experience. As a young man he went to say very early as part of the mitch navy so he had gathered a lot of experience below decks as a young man but also he had head to very quickly learn how to get on with people of the higher rank as well when he was very young. I he was twenty seven. He went to antarctica. As part of captain scott's discovery expedition. And i think that that was probably a formative experience in terms of relating to the royal navy men done in a particular way so i think he gathered quite a lot of experience during that expedition but also once. He decided that he wanted to late. His iron expedition south. He had to learn the out of persuasion. He had to not only assuage main to follow him but he also ahead to persuade sponsors to provide funds to the expedition as well. I think he was probably a very has waste of charming guy. He certainly trumped when he chomped aristocracy. Who said he wasn't just as chancer. He knew what he wanted and he refused to become a doctor as his father was a doctor so he knew that adventure and exploration was something he needed to do. And the impression i get from your book is that he worked out what was needed to be a good leader and very thoughtful about it. And of course when the endurance became embedded in the ice and then eventually disappeared an almost impossible challenge and he led the men through that they grizzled a bit but they were to miss supportive and then without telling the whole story of course he went in..
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"shackleton" Discussed on The Science Show
"With the exploration when spades and temperatures and not nitrile and avoid data are preferred to include the sort of experiential stuff. And i think that's really where the benefit of working with the men's diaries comes on. I have a lot of that detail. Yes i was gonna say. You actually read the diaries. You got to know the people so this was the sensation of being. There wasn't just made obvious for real because there it was what the men themselves wrote. Yes exactly and i think a lot of them were terrific die arrests. They put a lot into the writing. Perhaps because it wasn't a great deal to keep them occupied otherwise but certainly. The diaries contain a lot of the information. That didn't make it until the official expedition narrative that to prepaid when i got home because it's very personal obviously this relates to the interpersonal relationships between the name but also the food the feeling of cold the unpleasant aspects the constipation. The the things that aren't necessarily palatable to the people raiding the official expedition narrative. Yes like the use of alexandra queen alexandra's bible. What was that used for. Well i think that the bible was supposed to be lift. Shackleton wanted to in depth in the hole in the ice that they dug to put all the precious things and so the mean wind team to to carry a whole lot of extra weight. The bible was lift on the hall. But in one of the same actually winton and got it out of the hell he thought it was dreadful for the bible believed that they took what the a few copies of the encyclopedia.
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"shackleton" Discussed on The Science Show
"Decide showing rn. Where next we hear about one of the greatest adventures of the twentieth century. Charlton was a contemporary of scott and amundsen scott and amundsen of course advised to be the first the poll scott dot. They're narrowly often diet along. Attempted return is lauded as the great hero and scott great hero to you made the ultimate sacrifice but shackleton decided to do one better which is across the whole of the antarctic way and when he didn't manage to land ship because it was crushed then undertook a journey ironically lose far more challenging far more challenging the original would have being. I say that. Because i crossed antarctica on foot. A magen he originally intended to do and i got all my solway to the other side before a fuel leak ruined my whole thing and no one has ever done it to this day the whole crossing but i think it was within my physical reputable today but the journey that we've just done he was forced to do. And we've just replicating is far more difficult undertaking. He's a show in typical fashion. He set out to do one thing and the thing he ended up to mr so much more than even he could possibly imagine. And you saved everybody. Tim jarvis in adelaide and tim relived. Shackleton's ultimate endurance test. Same clothes. same food same. Awfully freezing cold and now join. A kovic in. Oakland has a new book on the adventure..
Environment: NPR
Scientists Have Found Some Truly Ancient Ice, But Now They Want Ice That's Even Older
"It's chilly across the country today. Highs of just fifty eight in miami and sixteen in minneapolis which makes minnesota colder than an arctic as mcmurdo station but the cold weather doesn't last forever in the twin cities and in antarctica. It does ice their last hundreds of thousands even millions of years and as npr's nell greenfieldboyce reports that makes an arctic the perfect place to find some of the oldest ice in the world. Just how old is the oldest ice. On earth john higgins says. Nobody really knows you know. Would i be surprised at this point. We had five million-year-old is i mean. I'd be surprised. But not it's not unfathomable i think he and some colleagues recently collected ice samples in antarctica. That were later analyzed and shown to be as old as two point six million years. It's beautiful stuff when you pull out. The is it. Essentially as crystal clear accepted filled with tiny bubbles the bubbles contain air from when the ice formed and this trapped air is what scientists are really after higgins says if you want to understand how gases like carbon dioxide have affected the climate throughout history. You know you can't really do better other than getting a time machine and going back in time and taking an air sample then using these ice cores which physically just trap samples of ancient air to release that ancient air. All you have to do is melt the ice. That's the sound of a research camp manager in antarctica making drinking water by melting scraps of two hundred thousand year old ice in a metal pot to actually collect an analyze the release gases however ancient is has to melt in a lab. Sarah shackleton studies old princeton where she gets to watch the trapped air bubble out and that is something that i don't know if i'll ever get sick of watching. It's actually like pretty mesmerizing and one thing. That's released surprising every time to muse. Just how much gas is actually in the ice. She says it's a lot and samples from time. Periods undergoing past climate changes could be used to help make predictions about the future. One of the biggest questions in terms of kind of the modern warming and look anthropogenic. Climate changes helmich warming. Do should we expect with the amount of co two that we have in the atmosphere now. Antarctica has been covered by an ice sheet for at least thirty million years. But it's actually pretty hard to find really old ice. John gooch is a geologist. At the university of minnesota he says while snowfalls constantly add new layers of ice to the top of the ice sheet the oldest layers at the bottom can disappear. That's because of geothermal heat coming up from the ground so the rocks are giving off heat of slowly over time and so that has the potential to melt ice at the bomb. Still bits of super old ice like that two point six million year old sample can sometimes be preserved at the ice sheets edges the older snippets of ice. That we've been able to find come from places where the ice has flowed up against a mountain range and been exposed at the surface in those spots though. The ice can be all jumbled up and messy. It's not nice layers that have been laid down sequentially over a long continuous stretch of earth's history to get a neatly layered ice sample like that. Scientists need to drill straight down through the thick icesheet so far the oldest ice collected that way goes back eight hundred thousand years. Gooch says the goal now is to drill down a couple of miles to reach ice. That's older a million to two million years old whether or not we'll be able to find it at the bottom of the ice sheet where we can recover a relatively simple continuous record. Is i guess. That's the sixty four thousand dollar question at team from china has drilling underway a group from europe. We'll start in november. What everyone wants is i-i samples that cover a key time period about a million years ago. When there was a dramatic shift in the planet cycle of ice ages. Those had been coming every forty thousand years or so but for some reason that pattern ended and it changed to every one hundred thousand years instead unto us working on climate. That's a really big deal. Eric wolf is a climatologist with the university of cambridge in the united kingdom. It's a really big question as to why that change is fundamental tower climates. Work in a way you could say. We don't really understand today's climate. If we don't understand why we live in one hundred thousand year will draw the forty thousand year world. The coronavirus pandemic basically ruins the arctic research season. That would've been happening now but starting next fall researchers will be backed down there searching for really old ice nell greenfieldboyce npr news.
Innovation Now
NASA's TransFormers Could Make Harsh Lunar Environments Robot Friendly
"No sunlight ever reaches the inside of a crater like Shackleton. Crater on the moon, instead the sun hits the Rim and casts a shadow over the entire valley, the darkness and subsequent cold create issues for rovers that might be used to explore these extreme environments. That's why researchers at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory are building a special transformer designed to heat and Power Rovers by redirecting sunlight into these dark regions, the transformer would be hitched onto the back of a rover disconnecting once it reaches the rim of the crater, then unfolding itself into an array. Array of computer controlled mirrors called helium stats. The transformer would create a ray about the size of a football field, which the rovers would use for power and heat, while the rovers do their work. The mirrors can be manipulated to follow the movement of the Sun, allowing scientists to see the darker parts of the crater in a whole new light