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- Pictures from the pastShackleton's Endurance trapped in pack ice - a picture from the past
The Shokalskiy expedition's current troubles in polar pack ice are reminiscent of Ernest Shackleton's legendary expedition to Antarctica (1914-1917) when the aptly named Endurance became trapped and was eventually crushed by pack ice in the Weddell Sea. The story of survival that followed is the stuff of legend