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If you sign up for an expedition and things go wrong, you better hope it’s with Shackleton.
If I remember right, he hammered nails through his boots to make primitive ice cleats, hiked out of there with a small group to safety, then immediately returned with help to rescue his men. Dude was a badass.
Their journey is so unbelievable. He and a few of his men sailed 800 miles, essentially in a lifeboat, in the worst sea on earth. When they landed on South Georgia they were on the wrong side and had to hike over the impassable mountainous island to the encampment.
Their expedition ship sank in the middle of the ocean and yet he still managed to get all of his crew members back to safety alive.