South – the first polar polar expedition ever filmed With his camera, Frank Hurley immortalised this incredible adventure, from the interminable wait on board the ship to the miraculous rescue of those shipwrecked. On his return, he put his name to South (1919), considered to be the first exploration documentary. Proof of the posterity of this epic, the film The Endurance (2000) takes a new look at the expedition using archive footage and testimonies from the families of the survivors. With their three-masted vessel immobilised, the 28 shipwrecked men decided to set off on foot, under the guidance of their expedition leader Sir Ernest Shackleton. Their only hope of survival was to reach Elephant Island. Pulling sledges and three canoes, the sailors decided to set up what they nicknamed "Camp Patience", in the hope that the ice would melt and allow them to set sail again. The crew spent three months in the silence of the polar night, with temperatures approaching -40°C, and were forced to survive by hunting seals and penguins. Rapidly running out of supplies, the members of the expedition attempted a desperate mission in April 1916, braving tumultuously high seas. In the end, it took the crew five days to reach Elephant Island. While this was their first step on dry land, of course, their arrival on this arid islet was still thousands of kilometres from civilisation, leaving them with little hope of survival. While the journey to King Haakon's Bay was a feat in itself, the crossing of the island's icy mountains to reach the whaling station at Stromness, was prodigious. It took three months to return to rescue their companions. This odyssey bears witness to the impressive strength of spirit of the explorer, thanks to whom the entire crew survived. In addition to gathering new data on the geology, climate and fauna of Antarctica, this voyage also led to major scientific advances. With the aid of expedition photographer Frank Hurley's images, the epic of Endurance continues to inspire generations of explorers and travellers. Remarkable endurance Shackleton finally convinced a handful of men to set sail again in the canoe James Caird, to attempt the impossible. They were to head for the island of South Georgia, 1,500 kilometres away, which they had left 16 months earlier. In February 2022, the wreck of Endurance was found in the Weddell Sea, more than a century after it sank. Setting out from Plymouth, England, in August 1914, Shackleton's expedition took an unexpected turn. Caught in the ice in 1915, the ship drifted for eight months before the hull succumbed to the pressure of the ice. What followed was a journey of survival at the end of the world. 26Shackleton: a polar odyssey
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