Endurance crew members biography

“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful.

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Honour and recognition in event of success.” The explorer Ernest Shackleton famously placed an advertisement stating this in a London newspaper as he recruited personnel for his 1914 expedition to the Antarctic.

Whether or not this story is true remains to be seen, but he was certainly not short of applicants: he received over 5,000 entries from men (and a few women) who were desperate to join his crew.

In the end, he left with just 56 carefully chosen men. 28 would be part of the Weddell Sea party, aboard the doomed Endurance, while the other 28 would be on board the Aurora as part of the Ross Sea party.

So who were these intrepid men who joined Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition?

What personnel did Shackleton need?

Antarctic crews needed a wide variety of people, with an assortment of different skills, to be present.

In such a