[TurboZamboni]

Part 2 on PBS tonight- good stuff.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The story of Ernest Shackleton and his crew is one of the most unbelievable I have ever read. Simply amazing.

[ETL]

Here’s a link to some other Shackleton documentaries on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Shackleton&sm=12

[AU72]

Will he row several hundred miles in an open boat to So. Georgia island in an open boat like Shakleton did?

[dirtboy]

moreover, the British public might have questioned why he spent nearly 500 days floundering about in the middle of nowhere while they were suffering for king and country through World War I.

WWI broke out just as Endurance was getting ready to leave. Shackelton asked the government if they should stay for the war effort or go, and the government said go.

[The Great RJ]

Gee hasn't the Antarctic ice melted so the reenactors could make the trip in kayaks and t-shirts. The dogma of St. Algore has declared this so it must be true.

[Reddy]

The most amazing part about Shackleton was that, having Providentially survived and escaped back to safety, he left AGAIN to go,to sea! I understand he did die on the next voyage, of a heart attack, iirc.

[CommerceComet]

Shackleton's story is the most amazing from the era of polar exploration, an era of lots of amazing stories.

I'm not sure how the real Shackleton would have responded to reality TV crews had they existed a century ago but I'm pretty certain that Roald Amundsen would have had no patience with them.