«Men are wanted for a risky trip. It’s not safe to come back alive.”

2024-01-22 05:17:23

The British explorer passed through Spain on his way to Antarctica to try to become the first man to cross the South Pole in 1914.

Photograph of the expedition to Antarctica, with Ernest Sheckleton

The Spanish press had been revealing the details of the historic trip that Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) was about to undertake towards the inhospitable territory of Antarctica for several years. In March 1914, ‘The Military Herald’ reported that the famous explorer was in…

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