CHRONICLES · HEROIC AGE OF ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION
The Voyage That Failed at Everything Except Coming Home
In August 1914, twenty‑eight men sailed from Plymouth to make the first overland crossing of Antarctica. They never set foot on the continent. They lost their ship, drifted on pack ice for nearly six months, sailed eight hundred miles in an open boat, and crossed an unmapped island on foot. Every one of them came back alive.