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Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic Expeditions, Pt. 2

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Shackleton and the Ice Floe

Shackleton kept working on morrel including assigning the men who were hard to get along with to the same tent. He also eventual had quartermaster thomas ordleys sleep with stores instead of in a tent with others. Shackleton started having trouble with sciatica, and for a while he was in so much pain that he could not get out of his sleeping bag without help. With the ice floe stay stubbornly intact, but the ice itself seeming a little more passable.

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