Ep 139: Shackleton, Part 6, The Finale — Six Men Conquer the Drake Passage; Three of Them Conquer South Georgia Island; Human Endurance Prevails
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Harry and Rafe conclude Bufnagle: the Podcast, Book Club Edition and the discussion of Alfred Lansing's book Endurance, the tail of Earnest Shackleton's ill-fated adventure to the South Pole during 1914, 1915, and 1916.
After two weeks fighting the Drake Passage, the James Caird and its six voyagers are out of potable water, South Georgia Island is within striking distance, but reefs and storms block the path. Two more days of master seamanship and just enough good fortune brings the Caird to a beachhead necessitating a crossing of the South Georgia Island, a mountainous hellhole that also possesses the Stromness Bay whaling station, a pinprick of civilization that just might finally be the end of this Successful Failure.
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