Worsley, who idiolized Shackleton, was a descendant of one of the men on his crew, and was a British special Forces Officer. I'm not very adventurous, was more so when I was younger, but not to some extreme extent.

I try to figure out the mindset of people who feel compelled to take these risks. I also find intriguing people who do dangerous and near impossible things. Not sure why that is, especially since I don't really want to live in these places, and due to health reasons will probably never even get to visit. On November 2015, at age 55, Worsley bid farewell to his family and embarked on his most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone.ģ.5 I have such a fascination with books set in places that are excessively cold and snow laden. Yet when he returned home he felt compelled to go back.

In 2008, Worsley set out across Antarctica with two other descendants of Shackleton's crew, battling the freezing, desolate landscape, life-threatening physical exhaustion, and hidden crevasses. He would succeed where Shackleton had failed, in the most brutal landscape in the world. He modeled his military command on Shackleton's legendary skills and was determined to measure his own powers of endurance against them. He was related to one of Shackleton's men, Frank Worsley, and spent a fortune collecting artifacts from their epic treks across the continent. Worsley felt an overpowering connection to those expeditions. Shackleton never completed his journeys, but he repeatedly rescued his men from certain death, and emerged as one of the greatest leaders in history. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole, and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice.

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