The Night the Endurance Died

In October 1915, Ernest Shackleton stood on the frozen Weddell Sea and listened to his ship die. The Endurance, trapped for nine months in Antarctic pack ice, was being slowly crushed by pressures no human engineering could withstand. Oak beams snapped like kindling. Iron rivets shot across the deck. The hull groaned and shrieked as millions of tons of ice closed in, and there was nothing any man could do to stop it.…