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Endurance: Surviving Antarctica | Patience | 2

Against The Odds

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The Great Trans Antarctic Expedition

Chippy mc nish is frustrated. This isn't at all what he imagined when he joined the great trans antarctic expedition. It's december 27, five days since the expedition celebrated an early christmas. Nearly two months since they abandoned the ship. They were supposed to wait for the ice to open at camp ocean so they could sail through. A month later, they were still there. Shackleton kept saying it would happen any day. The longer they stayed, the more nothing happened. And then four days ago, shackleton tells them to pack up and head west. He complained loudly, that it would be harder than the last time they tried. No one listened. Since

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