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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Jan 26, 2016 - 11:25am PT
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Endurance was the most hardcore adventure I've ever heard of. I can't imagine anyone who would read this thread who would not place it at the top or at least among the top adventure books they've ever read. The level of hardship, the duration, the uncertainties and difficult judgments and low probability events they had to successfully execute, the inability to get help... it is probably the closest thing to a real life story like the recent fictional movie "The Martian."
As for Henry Worsely, looks like he sought out the similar spirit of adventure as much as can be found in our modern connected and better mapped and better accessible world. He raged at the dying of a light and went out in style, accumulating another lifetime worth of experiences when others may have been content to sit in a rocking chair in front of a TV and wait for death in sedentary decline.
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Mei
Trad climber
I'm back!
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Jan 26, 2016 - 11:41am PT
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I can't imagine anyone who would read this thread who would not place it at the top or at least among the top adventure books they've ever read.
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, at the top of my list hands down.
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newport
Sport climber
UK
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Jan 26, 2016 - 11:57am PT
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Couldn't upload the photo of the James Caird in Grytviken- yes, it is tiny- but here are a couple of photos showing what it was like where Shackleton eventually landed:
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Feb 19, 2018 - 02:03pm PT
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Until this week I did not know of Henry Worsley and his ill-fated Antarctica trip. The New Yorker has a piece in this week's issue. Highly recommended reading.
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Mike Honcho
Trad climber
Glenwood Springs, CO
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Feb 19, 2018 - 03:20pm PT
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Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.quote]
Different expedition and explorer, I know. But damn do those brits know how to live on the edge, push past it and leave some fabulous quotes in their final days/hours. RIP man, legendary stuff.
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