"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
"I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns."
In 1915, the ship Endurance became trapped in ice during Ernest Shackleton's failed expedition to cross Antarctica. (source:NPR)
Crew Member work to break up the pack ice trapping the ship. (Source:History.com)
Expedition photograph Frank Hurley and Shackleton (right) cook in front of their tent. (Source: History.com)
Lifeboats flipped and turned into huts for the crew on Elephant Island. Twenty-two men lived in the hut for four and a half months. (Source: History.com)