Sir Ernest Shackleton’s South Pole adventures are the subject of a new exhibition. Laura Davis reports
THE shadow of Death’s scythe was spreading across Europe as mothers of all nationalities lit candles to mark the vain deaths of boys in sodden trenches.
Life was cheap; lives disregarded in favour of foreign policy and misplaced ambition.
Yet, of the 28 men awaiting their fate on a sinking ship in the middle of an icy wasteground, not a single soul would be lost.
Some may measure Sir Ernest Shackleton’s achievements by the great distances he travelled and the discoveries he made.
But the families of his 27 men on board Endurance would judge him by the lives he protected in perilous conditions.
