In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail aboard the Endurance with the goal of being the first to cross Antarctica. While Shackleton's legendary journey is well known, the remarkable story of the Ross Sea Partyhis support crew sent to the opposite side of the continent to establish crucial food and fuel depotsremains largely untold. In 1915, disaster struck when the Aurora, the ship tasked with supporting the Ross Sea Party, was swept away by a gale, leaving ten men stranded with nothing but the clothes on their backs and little hope of rescue. Determined to fulfill their mission, the men embarked on an extraordinary 1,700-mile trek across the continent, enduring a grueling two-year journey. Tragically, their immense sacrifice proved in vainShackleton never reached the continent, and the Endurance lay shattered at the bottom of the Weddell Sea. Poorly equipped and lacking experience, the men of the Ross Sea Party faced unspeakable suffering from malnutrition, hypothermia, and bruta