Details Of Journey

Nimrod Expedition: On 3rd August 1907 Shackleton set sail aboard the Nimrod, bound for Antarctica. According to his plan, after having endured the fiercest winter on Earth in huts built on Ross Island, on 29th October 1908 Shackleton, Frank Wild, Eric Marshall and Jameson Boyd Adams set off due south across the Ross Ice Shelf, with four Manchurian ponies pulling sledges. The aim of the Nimrod Expedition was to be the first to make a successful journey to Antarctica/South Pole. This was to be the most dangerous and risky part of the route. The smooth glacier surface had treacherous crevasses which claimed the life of their last pony and very nearly killed Frank Wild. The return journey to Ross Island was equally demanding. The same perils of crevasses, hunger, injuries and sickness took their toll, but the four men successfully reached the rest of their party on 4th March 1909. By December 1908 the party had passed Scott's farthest point and were now pioneering new ground. Shackleton published details of his new expedition, titled the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, also known as the Endurance Expedition or the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, early in 1914. The expedition is considered the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived by Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. After the conquest of the South Pole by Roald Amundsen in 1911, this crossing from sea to sea remained, in Shackleton's words, the one great main object of Antarctic journeyings. The expedition failed to accomplish this objective, but became recognized by it's journey.