Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer

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It was led by Robert Falcon Scott, a Royal Navy torpedo lieutenant lately promoted commander, [18] and had objectives that included scientific and geographical discovery. com and television personality credits Shackleton’s tale with inspiring him to fight through tough times in 1998, when his hedge fund suffered big losses and his dot-com was.

In the midst of seeking capital, his plans foundered when Northern Russia fell to Bolshevik control.Unqualified as a diplomat, he was unsuccessful in persuading Argentina and Chile to enter the war on the Allied side.

Longstaff, impressed by Shackleton's keenness, recommended him to Sir Clements Markham, the expedition's overlord, making it clear that he wanted Shackleton accepted. In 1983 the BBC produced and broadcast the miniseries Shackleton, which was released on DVD in 2017. Filchner was able to bring back geographical information that would be of much use to Shackleton, including the discovery of a possible landing site at Vahsel Bay. Finally, on October 27, 1915, a new wave of pressure rippled across the ice, lifting the ship’s stern and tearing off its rudder and its keel.

Shackleton published details of his new expedition, grandly titled the "Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition", early in 1914.

a] [30] The journey was marred by the poor performance of the dogs, whose food had become tainted, and who rapidly fell sick.Incredibly, all 27 men under Shackleton's command would survive the grueling Antarctic expedition, but their ship remained sunk and lost to history—until 106 years later. As the ship moved southward navigating in ice, first-year ice was encountered, which slowed progress. That same year, on the date of what would have been Shackleton's 137th birthday, Google honoured him with a Google Doodle.

f] [75] The transcontinental journey, in Shackleton's words, was the "one great object of Antarctic journeyings" remaining, now open to him. Shackleton was then briefly involved in a mission to Spitzbergen to establish a British presence there under guise of a mining operation. This march was not a serious attempt on the Pole, although the attainment of a high latitude was of great importance to Scott, and the inclusion of Shackleton indicated a high degree of personal trust. Endurance was beset—in the words of one of the crew, Thomas Orde-Lees, “frozen like an almond in the middle of a chocolate bar.Major Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874– 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.