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When World War I began in Europe in 1914, on the other side of the world, the British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail on the “Endurance” to set off on the last major expedition in the heroic era of Antarctic research: the “Imperial Trans- Antarctic Expedition”. But the “Endurance” gets stuck in the pack ice just a day’s journey from the Antarctic mainland. After months of fighting against the ice, the “Endurance” sinks. The men who previously escaped onto an ice floe have to watch idly. After almost two years of fighting for survival, all 27 expedition members were rescued in 1916 - a story that is still fascinating and unbelievable to this day had come to a happy end. Shackleton had turned tragedy into triumph.

Artist: Frank Hurley

Title: The Endurance Keeled over by Pressure, Antarctica, 1915

Medium: Platinum Print

Size with passe-partout and framing: 60 x 70 cm

Image size: 37 x 49 cm

with framing