#Shackleton

[ernest-shackleton]

What if we were cold.. because we're in Antarctica... and we had to hold each other to keep warm in our drafty tent.. and we were both boys..

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

Endurance in a new 3d scan by the Falkland Maritime Heritage Trust

[the-fear-of-art]

Losing my mind at the beauty of these color enhanced photographs of the Endurance expedition by @babelcolour on Twitter. The fact that these are color enhanced and not color added makes their existence even more remarkable. You understand why those first explorers couldn’t stay away.

[polarpics]

Ernest Shackleton on the Morning with surgeon Davidson after being invalided home from the Discovery, 1903

[violenceviolette]

British-Antarctic territories stamps from the 2000 Shackleton's Transantarctic Expedition collection

[photomatt]

Looking for a few good folks to help with one of the largest migrations in history, 500M+ Tumblr blogs to WordPress.

[mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware]

GUYS NO

[croziers-compass]

I cannot stop thinking about how the Antarctic men of the Shackleton traded things to one another and sort of created their own exchanged. The idea that these men thought of things to gift one another and created a social connection to one another by picking out their own personal belongings or rocks or items. And they gave them as gifts to one another. Effectively giving them meaning to be alive and to carry on. And then I think about items and the things the men of the Franklin Expedition probably gave one another. Clothing. Books. Cups. Tobacco. Chocolate. Things to give. Things to give. Even in the worst of it all there is something they can give. And they gave. To one another.

[autailome]

insane of shackleton to complain that war in the old days made men in 1913. sir why don't you just try to enjoy the last year of the belle époque 1914 is about to hit everyone like a truck

screenshot from the lost men by kelly parker lewis

[worstjourney]

Radio 3 aired a whole hour+ programme of music and reading about and inspired by Antarctica.

If you call to mind an image of Antarctica, it is likely you will come up with something informed by the heroic but ultimately unsuccessful Endurance Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. That’s because the extraordinary photographs and film from that trip planted the so-called White Continent in our imaginations for ever. Shackleton, who was born in Ireland in February 1874 before moving to London as a boy, might be best known for that failed trip but the fact that his crew survived, when so many did not, is now seen as a credit to his exceptional leadership skills. Today’s Words and Music is a tribute to the frozen landscape that inspired the heroic age of exploration. It is not just remote - it contains the world's highest, driest, coldest and windiest places. And these days it’s a hub of scientific discovery, international diplomacy and environmental change too. We’ll hear fiction from Beryl Bainbridge to Edgar Allan Poe, poetry from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Derek Mahon, memoir from Jenny Diski and Sara Wheeler as well David Attenborough, Maori scientists and other Polar Explorers. Alongside you’ll hear hugely varied music inspired by Antarctica from Vaughan Williams to Tanya Ekanayaka, from The Muppets to Nigel Westlake and Cab Calloway. Our readers are Jessica Turner and John Lightbody.

[renaultphile]

Ernest Shackleton's last voyage

“4th January 1922: At last, after 16 days of turmoil and anxiety, on a peaceful sun-shining day, we came to anchor in Grytviken.  A wonderful evening.  In the darkening twilight I saw a lone star hover, gem-like, above the bay"

Shackleton's last diary entry, written on board The Quest in Grytviken, South Georgia, 102 years ago today

[ernest-shackleton]

Hes truly such a bro

[the-merry-rose]

Made an improbable find at a northern LP Michigan thrift store! "Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition". It's written as if it were a real archived polar diary, complete with an introduction "written" by Lord Mouser-Hunt.

I'm about 30 pages in, and I don't think this book would make much sense to an actual kid or tween. But it is undeniably very cute and it was 53 cents.

[thehutpoint]

Dear Polish polarheads, a fair warning: do not buy a Polish edition of Caroline Alexander's "The Endurance", translated by Adrian Tomczyk and published by Wydawnictwo Poznańskie. Do not do that to yourself, I repeat, do not do that to yourself, unless you have a martyr complex level Bilson.

This translation is a fucking crime against literature. The grammar was blessed by Master Yoda, style is wooden and clumsy and the dude translating it has no fucking idea about polar exploration, sail ships or writing in his own fucking language. The result is a literary equivalent of manhauling, you try to read it and try so hard your whole body aches and then you get totally exhausted, only to notice that the progress you've made is miserably little.

I was planning to spend a couple of nice, long evenings, delecting myself with good polar story, and now I am sitting here close to having a stroke from sheer fury. If I could I'd order the translator to be punished by whipping. As a boy.

[polarpics]

Shackleton & Endurance crew returning to Punta Arenas from Elephant Island, 1916

[antarcticconfessions]

"I want to grab Ernest Shackleton's luscious tits while I bounce on it insolvently"