A Photographic Odyssey: Shackelton’s Endurance Expedition Captured on Camera

On his third Antarctic expedition in 1914, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, was trapped and eventually crushed in the pack ice. After surviving for five months on the ice, Shackleton’s men rowed to the remote Elephant Island. From there, Shackleton sailed for help in an open lifeboat to South Georgia almost 800 miles away. Over three months later he returned to rescue the crew of the Endurance. Frank Hurley, one of the great photographers of the 20 th  century, was the expedition’s official photographer – a pioneer in the emerging world of photojournalism.