The incredible journey made by crew of the ship Endurance (and the overlooked equally extraordi
The incredible journey made by crew of the ship Endurance (and the overlooked equally extraordinary account of the companion support ship Aurora’s crew), has to be one of the most engrossing real life adventure stories you’ll ever read.I’ve always been fascinated by Frank Hurley’s masterful photographs of the expedition and just what hardships he had to go through to take them, develop them, then have to salvage all but a fraction of those fragile slide negatives from a ship sinking beneath the ice, and protect and carry them on the long and arduous journey home.I was very lucky a few years back in receiving an invite to a photography exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society and getting to see a some of the original artefacts they hold from Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Along with Shackleton’s autographed Burberry helmet the highlight was carefully leafing through an album of Frank Hurley’s original prints and seeing up close the actual glass slide negative for the famous “The Long, Long Night” photograph. Very memorable.I don’t know that I could ever do the story justice, but it’s fun to play around with character sketches. -- source link
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