Sublime

While Shackleton was called the ‘Boss’ by his men, he did not differentiate himself from them, and in an attempt to help his crew get over the trauma of abandoning the Endurance, Shackleton literally served his men. Rising early in the morning, he made hot milk and hand-delivered it to every tent in the camp. His mantra of unity and show of humanit

started building a line of igloos and “dogloos” round the ship.

She was designed by Aanderud Larsen so that every joint and every fitting cross-braced something else for the maximum strength. Her construction was meticulously supervised by a master wood shipbuilder, Christian Jacobsen, who insisted on employing men who were not only skilled shipwrights, but had been to sea themselves in whaling and sealing ship

TF: Joe De Sena (page 38) goes through the same exercise using Shackleton as the litmus test. “That’s his dude, too,” as a mutual friend put