We May Know Why Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance Really Sank NYT | Top Stories By: Sara Novak 6 October 2025 at 18:00 The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began. © Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, via Getty ImagesThe Endurance, in the background, stuck in ice in August 1915 during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton. In the foreground, a dog sled team on a food-gathering expedition.
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