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Watching "Chasing Shackleton" tonight - a PBS special I own on DVD. A group of modern day explorers attempt to re-trace Shackleton's trip to rescue his men, stranded on Elephant Island over 100 years ago. He and five men took a small life boat, equipped with makeshift sails, from Elephant Island, 800 miles across some of the most trecherous ocean on Earth to South Georgia Island where there was a small whaling village. This expedition attempts to re-trace the trip using exactly the same clothing and equipment.