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Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic Expeditions, Pt. 2

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Story of the Aurora Team

Mackintosh and the sledge teams had to return to the base for the winter. They got there on march 20 fifth to find the aurora and almost all of the rest of the shore team gone. So soon they were exhausted and they were low on rations. The sledge dogs became so hungry that they started trying to eat their own harnesses. And as the dogs died, the men had to haul more and more of the load themselves. To add to all that, there was blizzards, extremely low temperatures, frost bite, snow, blindness and sleeping bags that froze solid during the day and then melted when exposed to people's body heat at night. Once authorities knew

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