The Small Boat That Crossed the Deadliest Sea

In April 1916, Sir Ernest Shackleton stood on the frozen shore of Elephant Island, Antarctica, facing an impossible choice. Twenty-two of his men were stranded, slowly starving, with no hope of rescue. The only way to save them was to cross eight hundred miles of the Drake Passage — the most treacherous stretch of ocean on earth — in a twenty-two-foot lifeboat called the James Caird.…