There wasn\'t a thing Ernest Shackleton could do.
Now, in October 1915, as he watched his ship break into piec.
So had Shackleton and his crew of 28 men, trying to become the first expedition ever to cross the entire continent.
But she had lasted nine months in this condition, stuck on the ice in the frigid Antarctic winter.
The ship\'s name seemed ironic now: the Endurance .
He stood on the ice-bound Weddell Sea, watching the giant blocks of frozen saltwater squeeze his ship to death.
There wasn\'t a thing Ernest Shackleton could do