‘The Antarctic is the last frontier’: the quest to save Shackleton’s Endurance ^36.3%

The Guardian - By Karen McVeigh - 6/15/2026, 6:00 AM

Negativity Bias 18.7% - Appeal to Authority 17.2% - Representativeness Heuristic 16.7%

The harsh temperatures, treacherous currents and shifting pack ice of the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea, which crushed and sank his ship, Endurance, in 1915, led Ernest Shackleton to describe it as the “worst portion of the worst sea in the world”. For more than a century, the inhospitable conditions, which present a challenge even for modern... more