Cross the Antarctic according to Shackleton's journey

An English-Australian expedition made an arduous journey across Antarctica, simulating the historic voyage of the great explorer Ernest Shackleton in 1916 with a small boat.

Led by renowned adventurer Tim Jarvis, the six-person expedition plans to travel 800 nautical miles on a boat with little equipment, starting from Elephant Island off the Antarctic Peninsula to South Georgia Island.

They plan to use only the same equipment and food as the Shackleton Group before it takes two days to climb the terrain area deep inside South Georgia, at an altitude of 900m.

The journey will take them through a whale hunting station in Stromness, on the other side of the island, where Shackleton and his team, almost with only a little bit of clothing covering their bodies, signaled an alarm.

Picture of Shackleton's Antarctic expedition.

Before the start of the journey, Jarvis said: "We know very well about the danger, but believe we have a pretty good little boat (an exact replica of the James Caird canoe that has joined the journey), a great expedition team, spirit and courage to honor Shackleton's legend, we are honoring Shackleton, one of the greatest leaders and explorers of all time, while still trying seek to attract attention to the impact of the environment in Antarctica. "

Along with Norway's Roald Amundsen - the first to reach Antarctica in 1911, Australian explorer Douglas Mawson, explorer Brother Falcon Scott - the patron before turning into a rival, Shackleton was one of the detectives. The greatest Antarctic insurance.

When he began his third journey to the area in 1914 with the Endurance ship, Shackleton planned to cross the Antarctic. But the ship was trapped in 1915 and sank 10 months later because it was crushed by the ice and damaged.

Shackleton and his crew lived on ice until April 1916. From here, they leave with three small boats to Elephant Island.

From Elephant Island, Shackleton and five sailors embarked on a dangerous journey to South Georgia and reached their destination 16 days later, when they saw the island's cliff. All Endurance mission members were later rescued and no one died.

Shackleton died of a heart attack in South Georgia in 1922, when he was working on the fourth Antarctic expedition, aiming to circumnavigate the continent. He was buried on the island.