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Shackleton's Way Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton never reached the South Pole. Because sometimes, surviving the impossible is success enough. It was the summer of 1915, and the great Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton was trapped. Ice floes in the frigid Weddell Sea had locked in his ship, the Endurance, for a polar winter so cold that the crew could hear the ice freezing around them. By September of that year, grinding icebergs had crushed the ship's hull, leaving Shackleton and his men stranded on a vast ice sheet 1,000 miles from the nearest inhabited land.