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Trial By Ice

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Sinee ehildhoodï¼Œ I have been asked that question. My father
Edwardï¼Œ was Ernest Shaekleton s younger sonï¼Œ and 1 canllol
remember a time when I was not aware of the part the ~renl
white eontinent had played in the life of my family.
Photographs hom my grandfather s expeditions huntï¼Œ on the waN.ï¼Œ
at home: beautiful blael~-and-white images from the early years ol
the century. The)ï¼Œ showed a world of snow and ice; bearded men in
strangeï¼Œ shapeless garments; a little ship being slowly crushed in the
iceï¼Œ her decline more shocking in each photograph until she is finally
only a skeleton of a ship. As a childï¼Œ I was ahvays particularly fas-
einated by one photograph. It showed the husMes (the sled do~s)
sitting patiently on the iee beside tim wreck of the ship that had
been their homeï¼Œ her end not far awayï¼Œ their future in douht.
Ernest Shaekleton died at the start of his third expeditionï¼Œ lie
was only 47. My father was nine .5ï¼Œears old. He did not have the chance
to lmow his father very well (explorers were away for years at a time
then)ï¼Œ yet heï¼Œ tooï¼Œ became an explorer. At the age of 20 he went to
Borneo and then to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic.
He avoided the Antarctic because he did not want to seem to be
trading on his father s name. When I was a little ~4irlï¼Œ
I remember sitting on the coalhouse roof with my brother one day
pretending it was a ship. I made him promise that heï¼Œ tooï¼Œ would
exploreï¼Œ to make it three generations. And he did. He took part in
an expedition to Devon Islandï¼Œ in the Canadian Arctic.
I did get to the iMltaretieï¼Œ nearly a hundred years after my grand-
fatherï¼Œ on a naval ship bearing the same name as his ship--
Endurance. It was only a small glimpse of the Antarctic he had
knownï¼Œ but it was an unforgettable experience. Perhaps after read-
ing this excellent bookï¼Œ some of you too will be inspired to visit the
great white south in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shaeldeton.
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