Endurance Part II Chapters 1-3









Shackleton and crew at new camp.



No longer aboard the Endurance, the shipmates must make camp on

the cold packs of ice. This was just the start of the new hardships.
The new plan, to march 346 miles to Paulet Island, would not be easily
accomplished. One of the more controversial parts of this section of the
book was Shackleton's decision to limit the supplies they were going to bring. Shackleton's arguement was that it would be worth the loss of supplies in order to produce faster speeds.


"From studying the outcome of past expeditions, he believed that those that burdened themselves with equipment to meet every contingency had fared much worse than those that had sacraficed total preparedness for speed."





RMS Titanic

 The is an age old debate. Is it better to travel light but swift? Or is it wiser

to be prepared for any need that may arise? Personally, I think it is better

to have anything one may need on a trip, even if it costs time. A

perfect example of this is another famous shipwreck, the Titanic. One of
the more memorable aspects of the ship sinking is that it was not equipped
with enough lifeboats to support all the people aboard. The ship owners gave many reasons for this, one being that they wanted to make the ship the fastest ever. However, if they had not been worried about the speed of the ship, many more lives would have been saved.