“If they were to get out-they had to get themselves out.”
“The order to abandon ship was given at 5 P.M.”
Most Important Keywords, Sentences, Quotes: In the end, all 28 people who started this adventure survived this incredible journey. It took him three tries (and four months) until he got to his crew to save them. He got a big ship and went to rescue his crew. The only problem was that the terrain was literally unpassable by anyone on foot, yet Shackleton and two more men managed to do it in three days.Įpilogue explains the aftermath of Shackleton getting to the station at South Georgia. Part 7 starts by explaining to us that Shackleton landed on the wrong side of the South Georgia island and that they needed to cross it on foot. The part ends up with Shackleton and his five men finally getting to the island of South Georgia. Part 6 covers the journey of Caird, the small boat that took Shackleton and five more men across the Drake Passage, the worst and the deadliest sea on the face of the Earth. Part 5 follows the situation at the Elephant Island- how the crew created shelter there and how Shackleton decided to take five people with him and, in a small and open boat, cross more than 1,300 kilometers and get to the island of South Georgia to get rescue. The crew spent 5 days in the small boats with less than 8 hours of sleep in total. If they missed those islands, they would be doomed. Part 4 explains the arduous journey of getting to Clarence and Elephant Island which were the last two islands before the open ocean. Part 3 follows their journey across the ice floes of Antarctica and how they managed to miss Paulet Island and went even further north. And with it, they had to abandon their mission and start heading toward Paulet Island for rescue (550 kilometers to the north). Part 2 follows the timeline when the ship ended up being crushed by the ice and the crew had to abandon it. This part also covers the year when their ship, Endurance, ended up being frozen in the ice around 100 kilometers away from their destination at Antarctica.
Part 1 follows the recruitment process- finding the crew of 28 people, getting the ship, and traveling from the U.K to South Georgia which was the place from where they started their expedition. The Trans-Atlantic expedition started in 1914 and wanted to be the first to cross Antarctica on foot which was a 3,500-kilometer long journey. The chapters are titled “parts” and they follow the story of the Trans-Atlantic expedition from recruiting the people and the ship Endurance through the catastrophes that happened on the journey, all the way to the salvation of the crew two years later. Endurance is divided into 7 chapters and a small epilogue.
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