'>>2673989
You probably wouldn't understand.';

'>>2674015';

'>>2673989
The most tragic thing was they could of learned how to hunt seals from the natives';

'>>2674244
They also could have learned literally everything else from the natives, like the Norwegians did, but they were too arrogant. Norwegians arrived in places before anyone else had been there as a result, englishmen died.';

'>>2674268';

'>>2674015
Still makes me kek that one of those guys was a stowaway on the boat who was looking for a thrill

>>2674268
From the natives...in Antarctica?

>>2674270
Viking chad makes Scottcels seethe';

'>>2673989
>going to play rugby with some mates
>plane crashes
>try to walk home
>get a gnarly sunburn and decide against it
>eat nothing but jerky for over 2 months, yuck
>get rescued
>everyone freaks out for some reason
>the Pope tells everyone we're chill dudes and it's ok
>miss the rugby match';

'>>2674301
>From the natives...in Antarctica?

This is a question you do not want the answer to';

'>>2674088
is this ad still active? is he still looking for someone?';

'>>2674304
KEK';

'>>2673989
The English were behind in every single achievement during their heyday. The fucking Norwegians, Dutch, Portugeuse and Germans beat them in various regards, even scientifically. The were undisputed #1 champs in eradicating the poos however, and still failed to improve their situation. They are also now probably #1 champs for going to random places in America and somehow dying in some amazingly stupid or ignorant way. Germans are probably 2nd currently.';

'>>2674304
>butt jerky

Heh';

'>be bong
>decide to go to the south pol
>decide Ponys are the best way to traverse the Antarctic
>die';

'>>2673989
>>go on convoluted trip for meaningless glory
Worthless faggots like you could never understand being a man. Shackleton was a gigachad of epic proportions. He asked for men to join him for an adventure that they may never return from. He risked a cold miserable death in a cold forgotten ocean to save his men. He is the textbook leader for when in crisis.

The Brits used to be the most badass people on the planet. They may have not reached the south pole first, bur the hell they went through in the attempt, and their antarctic and arctic expeditions are examples of the pure power of an unbreakable human spirit. Teams of men man hauling boats across the arctic, being kept alive by little more then their pride, crossing the most uninhabitable land known to man just for glory of doing it. Sure in the end most of them died in some of the expeditions (not Shackleton's), but that was a known risk to take.

Anyone who can equate an expedition like Shackleton's to meaningless glory cannot call themselves a man.';

'>>2673989
Source';

'>>2674304
My favorite part of this story is when the rescuer has to stay overnight with them and everyone has to play it cool like there's not human ribcages piled around.';

'>>2674301
>From the natives...in Antarctica?
No, they went to greenland to learn how to traverse giant stretches of ice and snow';

'>>2674592
>Shackleton was a gigachad of epic proportions
This. Dude expertly handled leading a group of men in the most horrific conditions imaginable and managed to keep them together and sane enough to come out alive. He knew how John Franklin fucked up and lead his men to death in a similar situation before them and did a great job at keeping the same thing from happening to his crew.
>it was all luck!!
Luckiest part of that trip was that they made it across the Drake passage alive. Otherwise, they continually got fucked over by the weather and wind pushing them away from their destinations and causing maximum suffering, but managed to push through.';

'>>2674593
https://yes-pdf.com/electronic-book/1614';

'>>2674304
>>2674613
Story?';

'Unironically I am of Anglo descent and partly retraced Shackelton's disasterous voyage on the Antarctic continent. No Irish though, Scot. Started at coastal landing Brown's Bluff and worked clockwise until went inland climbimg glaciers. Stood on a patch where men died and are presumably mummies. I drank a bottle of whiskey calibrated to taste like Shackelton's stash. It tasted like crap. No joke. All honor to their names. They gave their all to /out/.';

'>>2676836
>unironically
Why do people misuse this word so badly. As an added kicker, every statement in your post is the dictionary definition of irony.';

'>>2676841
It give poasters like you an opportunity to "contribute." Otherwise, unironically, you would have nothing of value to offer here.

Now you know, ironically.48kxmn4nag8';

'>>2676836
You got any images?';

'Y'all should look up the Batavia and Zeewijk wrecks. Some pretty fucking nightmarish shit.';

'>>2676841
go back, unironically';

'>>2675014
>>2674592
The Chad is Worsely.';

'>>2676841
>t.cannot fathom how to comment on such a based post so has to resort to some nerdy gay shit about grammar';

'>>2674501
Germans are for sure #1 in that, the Third Reich currently lies at the bottom of the Grand Canyon';

'>>2677429
why do you have these saved when you're a gay/tranny (same thing) white man yourself?';

'>>2677392
Actually, yeah. Worsley got shit done.';

'>>2677085
>see also: The Boyd Massacre';

'>>2677085
I will look these up, i fucking love shipwreck stories. Read about the wrecks of the Medusa and the Grosvenor this year.';

'>>2677854
>la meduse
>think that they're bringing barrels of water to the rafter
>its all wine
My favourite shipwreck story of all time
Truly horrifying';

'>>2677085
>Although Cornelisz had left the soldiers, led by Hayes, to die, they had in fact found good sources of water and food on West Wallabi Island. Initially, they were unaware of the massacres taking place and sent pre-arranged smoke signals announcing their finds. However, they soon learned of the killings from survivors fleeing Beacon Island. In response, the soldiers devised makeshift weapons from materials washed up from the wreck. They also set a watch so that they were ready for the Cornelisz' men, and built a small fort out of limestone and coral blocks.
>Cornelisz seized on the news of water on the other island, as his own supply was dwindling and the continued survival of the soldiers threatened his own success. He went with his men to try to defeat the soldiers marooned on West Wallabi Island. However, the trained soldiers were by now much better fed than Cornelisz' group and easily defeated them in several battles, eventually taking Cornelisz hostage. His men who escaped regrouped under soldier Wouter Loos and tried again, this time employing muskets to besiege Hayes' fort and almost defeating the soldiers. However, Hayes' men prevailed again just as Sardam arrived. A race to the rescue ship ensued between Cornelisz' men and the soldiers. Hayes reached the ship first and was able to present his side of the story to Pelsaert. After a short battle, the combined force captured all of Cornelisz's group.
Holy fucking KINO';

'>>2677908
Where did you get this info from? That's based as fuck.';

'>>2674244
>could of';

'>>2677908
400 years later and on desolate arid West Wallabi Island the ruins of the Hayes' fort is still there';

'>>2677885
The worst part is that if they'd all stayed on the boat and waited for rescue there'd have been no casualties. They were all foolish enough to think their only choices were to get on the drunken cannibal raft or to stay behind to play literal Hunger Games for the remaining food on the ship.';

'>>2676422
https://www.google.com/search?q=plane+crash+cannibalism
first result, atleast for me';

'>>2674268
>>2674501
The amount of shameless seethe lingering even today (especially from continentals) at the bongs for basically running away with the show in the second half of the age of exploration- and then proceeding to dominate human civilization (with the only empire to rival amcient Rome) almost reaches "deranged" levels at times.';

'I love stories of people being stranded and learning to survive. Here's the story of Alexander Selkirk -- the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDglGZ-l2D8&list=PLdxCyscptiso5gzSTR6oRGOfS5MJz6tg_&index=29

It's a delightful experience to listen to.';

'Based thread';

'ßamp';

'>>2677929
Thank you, anon. It's on my bucket list to visit now.';

'>>2674304
>One of the survivor is my nephew heart doctor.';

'>>2678061
>shameless seethe
Literally just historical facts, crying about it won't change.';

'>>2678061
and yet you elected a nigger to rule over you';

'>>2673989
The best one is that one native chick who survived when all the men died and she saved the cat.';

'>>2683387
The Erebus?';

'>>2673989
Anglos are subhuman. Imagine the world if it was colonized by Germanic people instead of the IRL equivalent of goyslop from England.';

'>>2681333
Same! I hear it's almost impossible to visit though. Too desolate and far away from amenities. So much so that they're planning to build a replica on the nearby Beacon Island (which historically speaking, is a FUCKING LAME move) only because Beacon has seasoning fishing villages and you can actually catch a boat there. Beacon Island is also where the crew and passengers landed and were massacred, so it's a nice historical site for the wreck's story but NOT where the fort was. Anyway. I would love to visit and touch that kind of fucked up history and the see the shit those marooned soldiers put up with to turn the massacre over to their favour eventually.';

'>>2683405
>world if it was colonized by Germanic people
WELL AT LEAST YOU ARENT SPEAKING GERMAN RIGHT';

'>>2674268
It was too cold for the sled railings to work on the snow. Normally, you get a thin layer of liquid on ice, snow, etc. which provides lubrication properties. But the temperatures were much lower than predicted.

Which meant that on the return it took much more effort to travel from point A to B. The weatherman who was part of Scott's support team admitted as much. It was bad break and it cost them their lives because they couldn't keep up the required mileage to get back to safety.

Had they attempted the year before or after, they would have likely survived..';

'For me, it's the Jeannette expedition';

'>>2674244
>natives
>antarctic';

'>>2673989
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9e%27s_Arctic_balloon_expedition';

'I think Apollo 13 counts';

'>>2674521
Should’ve brought reindeer.';

'>>2686233
I don't think the English even knew what reindeer were at the time.';

'>>2684027
>It was too cold for the sled railings to work on the snow. Normally, you get a thin layer of liquid on ice, snow, etc. which provides lubrication properties. But the temperatures were much lower than predicted.
Norwegians used other methods for lubrication. Anglos were to arrogant to learn methods of the ice dwellers.
>Had they attempted the year before or after, they would have likely survived..
No';

'>>2686215
The Expedition by Bea Uusma is great book on this would highly recommend if u like books on adventure and mystery.';

'>>2684027
>>2688526
>It was too cold for the sled railings to work on the snow. Normally, you get a thin layer of liquid on ice, snow, etc. which provides lubrication properties. But the temperatures were much lower than predicted.
No, lmao. That's not how sleds work.';

'>>2676841

Are you allergic to cool shit?';

'>>2673989
You clearly haven't read the book';

'>>2689593
Qrd';

'Anyone know that website that covered all of the expeditions? I remember it was blue and white and had a ship on the header.';

'>>2674088';

'>>2689593
What book?';

'How do we get Werner Herzog to make a movie about one of the stories here?';

'>>2674015
>shekelton
>shit working conditions with no pay
pottery';

'>>2678061
It's the inner turmoil of men who were forced to see the light and can't now unsee it and pretend it was never there. It haunts them every time they swing from the rope to get across the river over which the hundred year old bridge crumbled and they never managed to repair, they feel it with every mud pie they eat, with every street shit they take, every time they must hold a fork or can't gay rape each other as "discipline".';

'>>2689599
>Ernest Shackleton, 1914, embark on Endurance expedition to traverse Antarctica
>All goes ok, until the ship gets entrapped in ice, immobilized
>Ship eventually gets destroyed by ice pressure
>Survive on ice floes, limited resources
>Managed to scavenge a lifeboat
>Trek, sled, and sail back to inhospitable shithole named 'Elephant Island'
>Realise unlikely to get saved even here
>Send small team to South Georgia for help, a 14 day voyage in essentially a large dingy
>Cross uncharted mountains to reach whaling station after landing the wrong side of Georgia
>Organizes rescue himself
>Has to go not once but twice due to conditions
>Everyone but the dogs survive

It's a testament to resilience, survival, seamanship, and leadership';

'>All the stories of men dying for non existent glory seem to come from England.
Germans died en masse trying to climb Nanga Parbat';

'>>2673989
>All the stories of men dying for non existent glory seem to come from England.
Because you live in a former English colony your history lessons lean heavily towards "shit the English did." You were never taught about Russian exploration and conquest of the east. You've never heard of Zheng He. You've never heard of the Mali Empire. You were never taught about Mansa Musa. And this is because they happened without the English involved. Which is fine, because there's a lot of history, not all of it can be taught K-12, so some filtering is to be expected. But just because you've never heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.';

'>>2691751
based for coming through with the qrd. nta but thanks';

'>>2691751
Quite the opposite of what happened to poor Henry Hudson';

'>>2677854
Listen the the casefile podcast episode on the batavia. Dont spoil yourself beforehand.';

'>>2693954
Qrd';

'>>2694080
Same as the other one but the dog survives.';

'>>2677854
There was an expedition that took hundreds of photographs (when glass plates were still used).
The ship became icebound so they headed out on foot, with makeshift sleds made from lifeboats.
The captain ordered all of the glass plates destroyed so the crew would not be tempted to "smuggle" them back on the sleds- which would have been unnecessary weight during a life threatening trip.

Many years later the ship was located, fully intact, including the smashed glass- which is a shame because all of the work those men put in could have been recovered.

And I don't remember if it was that voyage or the OP, but one failed expedition the captain didn't want his men to lose moral by thinking they were going to be stranded for many months so he forbid them to hunt more than they needed to store food when game was plentiful and when winter came the men were digging bones from previous kills out of the snow to eat the marrow because everything had migrated.
They slept in sleeping bags with fellow crew mates that had died days earlier because they were too tired from hunger to take the bodies out of the tent.

Lots of cool (shitty?) expedition accounts from that era';

'>>2694483
>stranded for many months so he forbid them to hunt more than they needed to store food when game was plentiful
That was Shackleton. He had a neurotic fear of his men becoming demoralized and made some retarded decisions when they were stuck on the first ice floe (Ocean station iirc). You're getting the second part conflated with another expedition, cause nobody died in Shackleton's trip. Though, the sleeping bags that Shackletons' men were using were made out of reindeer hide and were slimy and rotting by the end of their expedition, so they had to share sleeping bags and toss out the ones that were too rotted.';

'>>2694080
Henry Hudson was a pretty badass but ruthless explo'r and he was literally obsessed with finding the northwest passage to get to the Pacific via the Arctic. For over a decade he commanded some of the most important and daring expeditions in North America, starting in the late 1500s.

Finally one summer he breached the far north ice flows and discovered the gigantic sea that is now called "Hudson Bay". By the time they oriented themselves to this gigantic landscape their ship got icebound - luckily they were an experienced crew and anchored the ship in calm water relatively close to shore. They abandoned the ship for the winter and survived on land in what could only be indescribable hardship. This is not a green landscape even in summer, and in winter they had to try and survive off whatever was on the ship and aggressively fishing the bay for protein and fat. There was much disdain and turmoil amongst the crew, and many died of malnutrition and acts of violence.

After months the ice began to melt and what was left of the ragged, angry, malnourished crew were able to make their way back to the ship owing their lives only to the graces of God. And they STILL had to survive the depressing spectre of a 3-4 month journey back to England ahead of them, through the open and violent north Atlantic and without adequate supplies.

Aaaaand then Hudson said nope, we're going west and we're continuing and we're finding dat Northwest Passage.

The crew immediately threw him, his teenage son, and a few loyal bootlickers onto a wooden paddle boat and set them adrift amongst the spring icebergs while the ship sailed back to England with fewer mouths to feed.';

'>>2696129
Written historical record ends there for Hudson, although Inuit oral tradition maintained for over two centuries tell of and old man, a boy, and two crazy men arriving at a seaside village in dire straits. The old man (presumably Hudson) died quickly of waste and disease, and the two crazy men were said to have murdered each other on shore. The Inuit were so perplexed as to what to do with this possibly diseased boy that they kept him leashed to a tree outdoors like an animal until he died of exposure at the end of the rope, likely naked and frozen.

The crew got back to England and were immediately put on trial for mutiny and possibly murder. None of them were executed and they eventually were all released, not because they were innocent of mutiny and murder, but because they were the only living souls to hold the maps and knowledge of Hudson's bay and the possible Northwest Passage.

Nightmares and suffering all round, but once again the interests of Big Exploration win over justice.';

'>>2696130
Fun Fax: This happened in 1611 and the Northwest Passage wasn't confirmed and traversed until 19-0-fuciing-5.

Nowadays the 'Passage is almost never traversed on the ocean surface, it's nearly impossible. It's routinely traversed by US, Candadian, and Russian submarines only';

'>>2683203
he's a paki and no one elected him';

'>>2696147
The majority of you did.';

'>>2698173
no, he became the conservative party leader because Liz Truss resigned and he was the only one running as her replacement. when Boris Johnson resigned before that, Sunak lost the leadership contest to Truss, which is also decided among party members, not the public. Johnson is the last Prime Minister to win a general election.';

'bump';

'bump';

'>>2699749
>>2701635
why are you bumping my over month old bait thread?';

'>>2701639
>bait thread
this is quite a normal topic for a thread. would you call any thread topic "bait" just for being interesting?

also I don't believe for one second that you're OP';

'>>2674244
wtf? do you know where these people were stranded? Wrong side of the planet retard';

'>>2702021
>the natives';

'>>2701641
believe what you want, i made it after reading endurance to shit on Shackleton for (you)s.';

'i just rewatched The Terror

i can't believe all that happened';

'>>2702660
the amount of people lost and the amount of suffering that went into finding that goddamn northwest passage is astounding. they literally spent about 400 years on it.

and you know what? it was finally traversed by boat in the 1900s and nobody even does that because it's not worth it. it's basically just a thoroughfare for russian submarines who think they're being tricksy';

'>>2673989
>...non existent glory...
And here (you) are recounting his glorious exploits unironically.';

'>>2702741
The Chinese use it for shipping now, I think.';

'>>2706854
not actually, but this is being monitored as a future potential. Chiner is low-key disputing Canada's sovereignty over the 'passage which is hilariously typical Chinese bullshit.';

'>>2673989
the book "Deep Survival" has some absolutely wild stories in it.';

'>>2678061
Dominate these guns, big boy';

'>>2674270
>Great God, this is an awful place
>I do not think that we can hope
>For any better things now

Pure uncut kino that you never saw on mtv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoHloQFJNvs';

'>>2710801
Pure kino indeed. Thanks anon.';

'>>2674592
Notice how all the people hating for no particular reason are amerimutts. All that Mexican, Chink, and Black DNA has diluted their once frontiersmen/explorers blood.';

'>>2683405
Anglo-Saxons are Germanic.';

'>>2712287
>bump';

'>>2674244
Oh yeah, who would they ask, the fucking penguins?';

'>>2715640
The Inuits you idiot';

'>>2718008
You retarded or something? What inuits?';

'>>2718008
You wrote "could of" instead of "could have" and you're callind someone else an idiot?';

'>>2674501
>The were undisputed #1 champs in eradicating the poos however
Then why are there still a billion poos on the planet?';

'>>2674304
Wow, it sure was lucky someone decided to pack all that jerky. Hard to imagine what they would have done if they didn't have that.';

'Had to check which board I was on lmao never change you fucking /out/ists';

'>>2674309
We don't talk about the Antarctic natives.
Just stay away from Antarctica, for your own safety, for all of our safety.
There's a reason all of the major powers of the world have agreed to leave Antarctica alone, and it's not just because of the cold.';

'>>2674304
that is a lie, they crashed at about an hour walking downhill to some local rancher's place';

'>>2686233
Why would you need rain gear ? It doesn't even get warm enough for it to rain there.';

'>>2673989
For me, it's the car Shackleton took to Antarctica
If you read up on all those early polar expeditions it was always the Scandinavians who did well and know what they were doing, a lot of their stuff isn't well known or translated though.
Guys like Shackleton and Scott were performers, not proper adventurers. They were the ones who managed to convince English donors to fund their adventures where they got up to all kind of retarded high jinks, came back and got good publishing deals from their rich buddies for their accounts.';

'>>2721524
>Guys like Shackleton and Scott were performers
Good thing you've done something productive with your life and upstaged them, right?';

'>>2678061
irrelevant dying island doomed to play fourth fiddle to its own former colony lmao. pathetic';