In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day’s sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed between two ice floes. With no options left, Shackleton and a skeleton crew attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic’s heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. Their survival, and the survival of the men they left behind, depended on their small lifeboat successfully finding the island of South Georgia—a tiny dot of land in a vast and hostile ocean.


1914 年 8 月，極地探險家鄂內斯特‧薛克頓登上堅忍號航向南極，他打算用雙腳橫跨那未知的最後大陸。1915 年 1 月，在歷經破冰千萬哩後，離目的地僅剩一天的航行，堅忍號竟受困在一座冰島上。薛克頓及其二十七名船員的傳奇歷險記就此展開。被浮冰困住的堅忍號往西北方飄移長達十個月，最後壓碎在兩塊大浮冰之間。在別無選擇的情況下，薛克頓與一名骨瘦如柴的船員試圖踏上一趟幾乎不可能的旅程，即橫渡南大西洋 850 哩的驚濤駭浪，到達離他們最近且有人煙的地方。他們以及留下來的船員得以倖存，全仰賴他們乘坐小救生艇，成功找到南喬治亞島，那座在浩瀚且險惡的大洋中只有一小點的島嶼。