How Long Was Ernest Shackleton Stranded? Did Any Of Shackleton’s Dogs Survive?

Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer, Ernest Shackleton himself was haunted by the fate of the men of his expedition on the other side of Antarctica, stranded for 497 days.

To the world, he was the hero who rescued the crew of the Endurance with “not a man lost.”

Tragedy struck the Australasian Antarctic Expedition on 14 December 1912. While on a three-man sledging mission, Belgrave Ninnis, his dogs and the sledge disappeared into a deep crevasse, killing all of them. They had been hauling most of the group’s food.

Shackleton, died from a heart attack, on January 5, 1922, with the ship at South Georgia.

Shackleton was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Shackleton published details of his new expedition, grandly titled the “Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition”, early in 1914.

There is a legend that says Shackleton’s newspaper article was written a certain way so that he could better narrow down and select candidates for his expedition.