The heroic captain of the Endurance, Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton braved the frigid wastelands of Antarctica three times in the early 1900s. In 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his team of 27 men set off to become the first people to cross Antarctica on foot. More @Wikipedia
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