03-10-2022, 12:18 AM
Paul F. wrote:
[quote=btfc]
“ William Shackleton and the Endurance “
Are you being Ernest?
Their crossing of South Georgia Island alone was one of the greatest mountaineering feats ever, even if you subtract what those men had already been through.
Agreed... Some very experienced mountaineers/expedition hikers have looked at the route they took across South Georgia and what they were equipped with and said it was impossible, and that they must have made it up. When assured they didn't make it up, and that they really did, they were awed and flat out said that in great shape, with training, proper maps, and modern equipment - they wouldn't try it.
Similar observations have been made about the route the Uruguayan rugby players took to escape their plane crash site in the Andes in 1970.
