Transantartic expedition...

[Boink]

Now what?

 

[sail]

AAA's problem.

 

[GTP1960]

Should have stuck with the dog sleds.

 

[JPSmit]

change your trousers?

 

[Bayless]

Was about to say it looks like a real brown trousers moment.

 

[catfood]

Get the spades out and start filling the hole?

 

[Basil]

Speaking of antarctic expeditions, I've got the PBS documentary "Chasing Shackleton" in my iTunes movie collection. It is a three-part series in which a team of modern-day adventurers, led by Tim Jarvis, set out to retrace Shackleton's amazing journey from Elephant Island in Antarctica to a whaling station on South Georgia Island to effect rescue of his stranded crew. The journey included over 800 miles in a small lifeboat and an on-foot trek across the width of S. Georgia Island. The modern team used a replica of the Shackleton boat, with the same period-correct clothing and the same provisions and equipment that the Shackleton team used. They wanted to recreate the journey as closely as possible to the experience that the Shackleton team had.

 

[NutmegCT]

Basil - that Shackleton documentary is very well done I think. Incredible to imagine what the real Shackleton went through to save his crew.

If I recall, in the re-creation of the journey for the show, the men didn't quite make it without a lot of modern "help".

 

[GTP1960]

The book "Endurance" is an all time favorite.

the original photography is incredible.

 

[Basil]

Basil - that Shackleton documentary is very well done I think. Incredible to imagine what the real Shackleton went through to save his crew.

If I recall, in the re-creation of the journey for the show, the men didn't quite make it without a lot of modern "help".

I recall they had ship to ship communications and GPS tracking for safety purposes, but they did still retrace the route and only used the same cloths and provisions as Shackleton.