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0:00May 20, 1916 At a whaling station on South Georgia Island, suddenly
0:04three men are seen who were believed to be dead long ago.
0:08Their beards were quite big, their clothes were torn, and their faces
0:12were black due to cold and sun.
0:15The condition was so bad that no one present there could recognize them.
0:19How do you recognize?
0:21Because these three people were found dead 532 days ago Is he Jogose?
0:2525 companions boarded a ship and set out to explore Antarctica, the coldest
0:29and most dangerous place in the world.
0:31Their dream was to reach the coast of the Weddell Sea and cross
0:36the entire Antarctica on foot.
0:39That is, a feat that no one had ever done before.
0:43But the snowy world of Antarctica has changed everything.
0:46Soon they started taking such a test that no one had even imagined.
0:50In a few months, the ice sheets in the Weddell Sea became so thick that
0:54their ship got stuck in the snow and one day it got stuck in the depths
0:59of the sea in front of their eyes.
1:02In this way, 28 people were stuck in the coldest and most desolate
1:06area in the world, surrounded by silence like snow, storm and death.
1:09During such dangerous times, they had to stay on floating ice for months, in
1:14just a few moments, they ran out of food and water, and to survive they had to
1:19take such decisions that even thinking about them, their souls trembled.
1:22To save their lives, they had to bring back dogs with them.
1:44This story is not just about an expedition, but it is a story of
1:49human courage, leadership and survival to the extent that the distance
1:52between life and death is just as much as a wrong step every day.
1:57So let's go on a journey where death was at every turn.
2:01And where the world's greatest survival story began, which proved
2:05that when a person refuses to give up, the world refuses to give up.
2:09then the most difficult conditions also bow down in front of it.
2:13Antarctica, located on the south pole of the earth, is one of the seven
2:17continents of this earth, which is the coldest and toughest place on this earth.
2:21This area surrounded by
2:25the Antarctic Ocean is almost completely covered with snow.
2:29The cold here is so dangerous that in many places the temperature goes
2:32below minus 50 degrees Celsius.
2:39And the snow all over the place makes it an almost impossible place for humans.
2:46But this danger created excitement in some people.
2:49Such was an Anglo Irish explorer, Ernest Shackleton, whose dream of reaching
2:54Antarctica in his mind was like a passion.
2:57He tried to reach Antarctica in 1901, but due to very bad weather
3:02and difficult conditions, he had to return about 750 km before.
3:07He reached 2, 000 km in 1907.
3:09But this time too he had to return only 150 km from Antarctica.
3:16Although it was considered the Father South record of that time, due to
3:19which Ernest Shackleton became very popular and he was honored with the
3:23title of Knight by King Edward VII of the United Kingdom after which he began
3:28to be called Sir Ernest Shackleton.
3:30But even so much the restlessness in him and the reluctance to reach Antarctica
3:35did not let him sleep peacefully.
3:38In such a way, in 1913, Sir Ernest Shackleton again made a plan for the
3:43Antarctica Expedition, which was named Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition.
3:46He announced that this time he would not only reach Antarctica, but he would
3:52cross the entire Antarctica on foot.
3:54His plan was that his ship would first reach South Georgia Island and then
4:00cross the Weddell Sea from there.
4:02While crossing, he will go to Vassal Bay on the coast of Antarctica.
4:06After which he and his team will cross the entire Antarctica by walking through
4:09the South Pole to reach Ross Sea.
4:11After this, Ernest Shackleton bought a Norwegian made ship through fundraising
4:18for this journey, named Endurance.
4:20Endurance was a three masted sailing ship, but to speed it up, a coal fired
4:25steam engine was also installed in it.
4:27And this ship could also make way between light pack ice.
4:31After this, Shackleton The description of this newspaper was Men Wanted
4:38For Hazardous Journey It was clearly stated you had to face strong cold,
4:44snowstorms and darkness for months and no guarantee of going home but crossing
4:51this dangerous expense There are 5000 applications in the world and Ernest
4:56Shackleton chooses only 27 of them.
5:00Sailors, carpenters, Navy officers, doctors and engineers
5:03were included in his chosen crew.
5:04In addition, there were six scientists among these 27 people who were going to
5:08do scientific research in Antarctica.
5:10But this mission was as great as it was dangerous.
5:13In that era, GPS, satellite navigation or modern communication was nothing.
5:18The guess of direction and distance was 100 percent wrong.
5:20It was used only with instruments like maps and sextant.
5:23A small mistake could have led them to the wrong direction by
5:27deviating hundreds of kilometers.
5:28In the meantime, World War I had also started in the world.
5:32But despite this, Ernest Shackleton did not back down from the mission.
5:36Endurance was finally defeated.
5:37On August 8, 1914, England departs from Plymouth.
5:41However, the real journey began when the ship reached South Georgia Island
5:45after a journey of about three months.
5:48This was the last human settlement before Antarctica.
5:50The Norwegian sailors living here warned Shackleton that this
5:54year the sea ice is much thicker and more dangerous than before.
5:58That's why they called this expedition a human settlement.
6:00But Shackleton decided to move forward.
6:03After that, on December 5, 1914, the ship Endurance leaves the stormy seas from
6:08the whaling station in South Georgia and departs for the world's most dangerous
6:15and mysterious continent, Antarctica.
6:16This ship is called the Shackleton.
6:18On the ship, apart from Sir Ernest Shackleton, there were 27
6:20crew, 69 dogs and a cat rider.
6:23In addition to this, the food and drink of the ship, food, safety instruments
6:27and three lifeboats were also kept.
6:29The dogs were kept on the snow to pull the luggage.
6:32The mission command, where Sir Ernest Shackleton was in the hands, was in the
6:35role of Frank Wilde, 2nd in command.
6:39The captain of Frank Worsley, while the responsibility of the visual
6:42record of the expedition was on photographer cameraman Frank Hurley.
6:46Parthi A few days later, Endurance enters the Weddell Sea, one of the most
6:50dangerous sea areas in the world.
6:52Clouds were in the sky and there was no sign of the sun.
6:57But despite this, the atmosphere of the ship was very pleasant and the crew
7:03members were busy laughing at each other.
7:05From here, they started a journey that was full of romance and danger and was
7:11going to become a survival story that had neither been heard nor seen before.
7:17Weddell Sea is a marine area, which is surrounded by Antarctica on three sides.
7:22For this reason, there are thick layers of snow on the sea floor.
7:26Only two days after leaving the whaling station, Endurance started
7:29getting stuck in pieces of ice from all sides, which reduced its speed.
7:32As the days went by, the snow kept getting thicker.
7:35As a result, only nine days after leaving South Georgia Island,
7:38Endurance started getting stuck in pieces of ice from all sides.
7:42On December 14, the ship 24 hours, but no one has lost hope.
7:46Shackleton was hoping that this snow would be lost in a few days.
7:51It happened as he had thought.
7:53And about 8 days later, on December 22, the snow on the road begins to melt.
7:57After that, the ship moves forward again and for the next two weeks, the ship
8:01continues to move towards the south.
8:03Soon, on January 10, 1996, the ship sank.
8:05The ship reached near the coast of Antarctica and its
8:09destination was only 100 km away.
8:13On January 15, Endurance reached a place where the sea ice was looking very strong.
8:18The crew thought that if needed, it can be climbed on the ice and walked ahead.
8:24But Shackleton thought that his real landing point Vahsel Bay
8:27is still in the south.
8:29That's why he took Endurance to the south.
8:29But in reality, they were quite close to their objective. Shackleton had
8:35miscalculated their position—a mistake that would soon turn his and his crew's
8:41lives into a living hell. This miscalculation steered the ship into an area of even denser
8:47ice. Meanwhile, by the evening of January 17, the weather took a sudden turn for the worse.
8:53Strong winds drove the ship off course, and the Endurance began to drift slowly toward the northeast.
8:58about 23 km away from its place and the layers of snow began to thicken again.
9:03Now the situation was that when the wind was blowing, the ship was drifting
9:07in the wrong direction and when the weather was calm, the snow would stop it.
9:11This went on for many days and finally on February 14, Shackleton
9:14shut down the engine of the ship to save coal and ordered the crew
9:18to cut the snow and make way.
9:19Everyone tried to cut the snow for many days, but the road could not be
9:24made and the snow could not be cut.
9:26The ice was constantly taking the ship into its grip.
9:29Now Antarctica was going to have a long, dark winter, so Shackleton was worried
9:34that if the ship was stuck here, he would have to spend the whole winter in the ice.
9:41In winters, the sun is not visible here for months, the ice thickens and
9:46its pressure could break the ship.
9:48But knowing everything, Shackleton could not do anything.
9:50The ship was stuck in the ice, and the open sea was far away.
9:55Finally, on February 24, 1915, Shackleton decided to stop trying to move forward
10:00and spend the whole winter here.
10:02All the dogs were removed from the ship and shifted to the dog loose made
10:08of ice, and the interior part of the ship was made suitable for winter.
10:13Shackleton had a miracle in this area three years ago, when the ship of explorer
10:18Wilhelm Filchner arrived in this area.
10:20Shackleton, too, began to wait in the hope of just such a miracle; and to ensure
10:27that the team's morale did not waver during this period, he organized a variety of activities
10:33for everyone—including moonlight walks for the crew.
10:35There were small plays and games on the ship and races of dogs were also done
10:40so that everyone's mind was engaged and no one's courage was broken.
10:43About 6 7 months passed like this, but despite this, instead of improving the
10:47situation, it started to get worse.
10:49The ice around the ship's endurance started to crack and put pressure on it.
10:53Meanwhile, one day, a huge pile of ice from the surrounding area collided with
10:57the ship, causing a loud noise there and the endurance broke from many places.
11:02There were many big holes in the back of the ship.
11:26that Ernest Shackleton had to take the most difficult decision.
11:30He ordered that the ship should be emptied because staying on that sinking ship for
11:35too long could have cost him his life.
11:38After this, all the necessary items and three lifeboats
11:41were removed from the ship.
11:43Shackleton gave a clear order that every man will take only as many
11:46things as necessary to stay alive and everything else had to be left behind.
11:50In a short while, 28 people were standing on the ice.
11:54In front of them was the endless silence spread all over and behind
11:58them was their ship, Endurance, which was now slowly sinking into the ice.
12:01Standing in the middle of the sea on that desolate snowy field, for these 28 people,
12:06the world had suddenly ended and there was no hope of help from far and wide.
12:11There was only ice all around.
12:40Hill Island or Robertson
12:50WHA Station.
12:52On October 30, 1915, Shackleton ordered his team to move forward.
12:57But the situation was much more difficult than he expected.
12:59Even after three days of hard work, he was only able to move
13:03two miles ahead of the difficulty.
13:05It was very difficult to walk on the snow pulling lifeboats, luggage and dogs.
13:09It was almost impossible.
13:10Shackleton had to decide to stop after losing the fatigue and he asked the crew
13:14to make a camp on a strong floating ice.
13:17After this, everyone together made a camp on the big pieces of
13:20ice, which was named Ocean Camp.
13:22He was just a short distance away from the drowning Endurance, so sometimes he
13:26used to bring important things from there.
13:28But on November 21, 1915, the moment finally came when Endurance
13:31sank completely under the ice in the depths of the Weddell Sea.
13:34Endurance sank completely under the ice in the depths of the Weddell Sea.
13:38Shackleton and his crew's eyes were filled by seeing this horrific scene.
13:41The ship that had brought them to the end of the world had now
13:46disappeared in front of them.
13:47Now they had only one floating ice sheet support on which their camp was built.
13:52In the beginning, the flow of that piece of ice was so slow
13:55that it was not even felt.
13:57But by the end of November, its speed increased to about 11 km per hour.
14:01But still, it was going to take a lot of time for them to reach a land area.
14:06So in the 4th week of December, it was decided that they would now
14:10try to walk towards Paulet Island.
14:12On 23rd December, leaving the Ocean Camp, everyone starts
14:15walking towards Paulet Island.
14:17But the conditions were very difficult.
14:19Despite the hard work, they are able to move only 12 km ahead while pulling heavy
14:25goods and three lifeboats on the snow.
14:27In the end, they have to stop again and walk on another strong road.
14:31Everyone has to build a camp on This time he calls it patience camp.
14:36But now the real problem had started in front of him.
14:39Food rations were decreasing rapidly.
14:41Everyone used to get a biscuit, some cocoa and some high fat
14:45meat paste throughout the day.
14:46Sometimes they used to hunt seal and penguins, but this often did not happen.
14:51There was so little water in the body that everyone were Etched
14:55and my throat was so dry that they were having a hard time eating.
14:59His throat had become so dry that he found it difficult even to swallow food.
15:01At this point, Shackleton ordered everyone to eat raw seal meat so that it is
15:05easier to get the food out of his blood.
15:08The situation got so bad that he killed the dogs he brought along with him.
15:13Dog meat was now an important part of their food.
15:16Leaving the ship, they had been out for about six months and by the end
15:20of March 1916, their life was saved.
15:24The crew began to notice some mountains, but the worst part was
15:27that they had drifted in the reverse direction of the Paulette Island.
15:31Because the wind kept changing direction.
15:33So the ice sheet was flowing somewhere there and somewhere else.
15:36Nature was testing them every moment.
15:38To prevent them from returning to their original position.
15:41Shackleton was forced to change his target.
15:45First he thought that he could reach Clarence Island, then there
15:48was a hope of reaching King George Island, but finally it was decided
15:52that he would go to Elephant Island.
15:55According to Shackleton, Elephant Island and King George Island are the world.
15:58His current position was about 160 km northwest and the piece of
16:03ice was also constantly flowing in the same direction for many days.
16:06In a few days, this distance was reduced to only 50 km. But during
16:10this time, another danger came up.
16:12The piece of ice on which his camp was, it was getting thinner
16:16rapidly and could break at any time.
16:38Captain Frank Worsley 80 hours.
16:40Many people were sick due to hunger and dirty water and more than
16:44half of the people were mentally broken and lost their courage.
16:48But all the people who were healthy, they kept running the boats.
16:52In this way, after pedaling for 7 days in a row, they reach
16:57Elephant Island on April 16, 1916.
16:59About 1.
17:005 years later, there was solid ground under their feet.
17:03The island was deserted.
17:05It was cold and barren, where maybe a ship used to come.
17:09But still, at that time, this place was no less than a heaven for them.
17:14But the truth was that it was almost impossible to stay alive here for
17:18many days because there was almost nothing to eat on this island.
17:22The human settlement closest to Elephant Island was at least 960 km away.
17:27Cape Horn of South America and Falkland Islands were at this distance.
17:30While South Georgia Island, where the main expedition of The trip was about 1300 km.
17:37There were Cape Horn and Falkland Islands pass, but the only way to get there, from
17:42one of the most dangerous coastal roads of the world, goes through Drakes Passage.
17:47To pass through here was equal to going into the mouth of death.
17:5212 meters high waves rise here, and more than 20000 sailors
17:55had lost their lives here.
17:57Shackleton decided that he would try to go to South Georgia Island.
18:01But the problem was that most of the crew was so bad that it was very
18:06risky to take them so far by lifeboat.
18:09So Shackleton decides that he will go to South Georgia Island with a small
18:13team of only 6 people and will return to Elephant Island to rescue his
18:18companions by taking help from there.
18:19In this way, 22 people were going to camp on Elephant
18:23Island and wait for Shackleton.
18:24Shackleton took care of the team to stay there.
18:27responsibility to Frank Wilde, who had previously been on
18:29many of his expeditions.
18:31After completing all the preparations, on April 24, 1916, Shackleton and
18:37his five companions Frank Worsley, Tom Crean, Harry McNish, John Vincent
18:42and Timothy McCarthy board a small lifeboat and set off for South Georgia
18:47Island on the way to Scotia Sea.
18:49The plan was that they would sail for four hours and rest for four hours.
18:53But the waves of the sea were so dangerous that many times
18:56the water in the boat broke.
19:27For the next 16 days, he was constantly struggling with the
19:31vast and dangerous waves of the sea and the fast stormy winds.
19:34Sometimes he would remove the water from the boat, sometimes he
19:38would remove the frozen ice in it.
19:40Finally, one day he saw South Georgia Island from a distance.
19:43Now he was only 5 km away from it.
19:45The crew was completely tired and they did not even have the
19:48strength to hit the paddle.
19:50That's why they left the paddle.
19:51It seemed as if they had lost everything.
19:54I don't know if you noticed, but after 17 days of this dangerous journey, Sir
20:00Shackleton and his 5 companions finally reach on the West Coast of South Georgia.
20:05Reaching the shore, there was no place for their happiness, and
20:09they hugged each other out of joy.
20:12They thought their biggest fight is over, but when they realized
20:17their correct location, the happiness disappeared in a moment.
20:20He had reached the wrong side of the island, where there
20:24was no human settlement.
20:25Here humans lived on the opposite side, where there were whaling stations.
20:29But to reach there, he had to cross about 40 kilometers of
20:33snowy mountains and glaciers.
20:34At that time, his condition was such that he could not even climb a step.
20:39So he decided to rest for a while.
20:42He hunted seals and other sea creatures nearby, so that some power could return.
20:47Because they were waiting for the most difficult walk of the story.
20:51The mountains of South Georgia Island were so dangerous that no man had
20:55ever crossed them on foot before.
20:57But Shackleton and his companions now had no other way.
21:01Even after 9 days of rest, Harry McNish, John Vincent and Timothy
21:07McCarthy could not recover.
21:07So on May 19, 1916, In 2016, Ernest Shackleton left him there and started
21:12climbing thousands of feet high mountains with Frank Worsley and Tom Crean.
21:16The biggest difficulty was that he did not know the right way.
21:19So whatever mountain was visible in front of him, he would climb it.
21:22If there were deep pits somewhere, the walls of some straight
21:25rocks would stop the way.
21:27When there was no way to go ahead, he would get down and then try
21:31to climb some other mountain.
21:32Even after hours of trying, he was not able to find the right direction.
21:36After about 24 hours, he was able to reach the top of the mountain.
21:40Um, uh, Um, uh, transparency across the whole country.
21:48Transparency across the whole country.
21:53Um, uh, Um, transparency across the whole country.
22:00And from a distance, the sound of the whistle of the wind coming from the
22:04stormless whaling station was heard.
22:06This was the first time in the last two years when he had heard
22:09the sound of a human activity.
22:11This made him believe that he was going in the right direction.
22:14After walking for a few more hours, the three of them reached
22:17the whaling station by noon.
22:18He was completely tired because he had been descending from the
22:21mountains for 36 hours in a row.
22:23This was the island from which he 532 days ago, he had left for Antarctica,
22:28and now fate had brought him back there.
22:30But when he reached the whaling station, no man present there could recognize him.
22:35All three had grown a lot of beard, their faces had turned black,
22:39and their clothes had torn badly.
22:41Seeing him, the manager of the whaling station asked in
22:44surprise, Who the hell are you?
22:46Then Ernest Shackleton replied slowly, My name is Shackleton.
22:49Everyone is surprised to hear this because so far the world had agreed that Ernest
22:54Shackleton and his entire team is dead.
22:56But today three of them were standing alive in front of him.
22:59After this, the manager of the whaling station immediately gave food to
23:03all three, gave new clothes and a bed to sleep so that after such a
23:08long time they could get some rest.
23:10Although Ernest Shackleton had reached South Georgia Island with
23:13his two companions, but thinking about the 22 crew members of the
23:16whaling station, his heart sank.
23:33And then he got stuck on Elephant Island and started trying to save his crew.
23:38On May 23, 1916, he made his first rescue attempt and left for
23:43Elephant Island on a whaling boat.
23:45But the sea ice that spread in the sea blocked the way and he had to return.
23:50After that, he reached Falkland Islands and started preparing
23:52for the second attempt.
23:53On June 10, 1916, the second rescue attempt was made, but
23:57this time the ice walls did not allow the ship to move forward.
23:59On July 12, 1916, the second rescue attempt was made, but
24:01this time the sea ice did not allow the ship to move forward.
24:03Second, they attempted to take a moped called the ambulance on the
24:06elephant island driver Help would and he tried to reach the elephant island.
24:09But this time again, he failed badly.
24:10He had tried until now but he failed to do so, Shakleton was not
24:14willing to move away from that.
24:15While looking for a way to rescue these men he looked for another
24:18appt opportunity this time.
24:19Chile's government asked for help, which gave him a steam tug named Yelcho.
24:25On August 25, 1916, Shackleton left for Elephant Island for the fourth time.
24:29There, Frank Wilde had built a hostel for his companions on Elephant Island.
24:33He had made a small shelter from two inverted ships and stones.
24:37Whenever the crew's morale began to break, Frank Wilde would say the same thing.
24:42Do your backpack friends, the boss can come today.
24:44But the days changed in weeks and weeks changed in months,
24:48but their boss did not return.
24:50In this way, they had spent four months on Elephant Island and they
24:54had started to believe that the boat might have sunk on the way and their
24:58boss would never be able to come back.
25:01Desperate, they decided to take a lifeboat and head for an island. But just before leaving Elephant Island, on August 30, 1916, they suddenly
25:04spotted a ship in the distance, heading towards them. At first, no one believed it, but after a while, it became clear that the ship belonged
25:09to their boss, Ernest Shackleton. Within a few hours, Shackleton was standing among his companions.
25:12He was astonished to see that 22 of his companions were still alive and well on a desolate and deserted island, even after 128 days. Tears of joy filled everyone's eyes. Some were hugging each other, others
25:58were sharing their experiences. Ernest Shackleton put everyone on board that same day, and on September 3, 1916, they all safely reached Punta Arenas, Chile. After nearly two years of battling ice, storms, and high seas, the expedition finally ended. Shackleton set out with 27 people... and returned with only 27. Nearly 106 years later,
26:0010, 000 feet below, the ship Endurance was also discovered, whose wreck
26:05is still safe in the sea today.
26:06On January 5, 1922, Sir Ernest Shackleton was bid farewell
26:09to the world at the age of 47.
26:12He had set out to take Antarctica on foot, but could not complete his real mission.
26:18Still, in history, his name is such a leader in the form of Darz, who in
26:23impossible circumstances also brought back his every companion alive.
26:26This is why Shackleton's survival story is still alive today.

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