There were deaths on Shackleton's expedition

I've read Bickel's account and it's good and authoritative. It fills the gap that you noted about the other half of his overall expedition to cross the continent first. Historians have known about it of course because it was no big secret but it obviously was lost in all the publicity over Shackleton's own party and its miraculous survival (shipwrecked, marooned, 800 miles from South Georgia Island with two small lifeboats). Shackleton was also world-famous and a national hero in the U.K. so naturally more attention was directed at him. Unfortunately the "forgotten" party lacked the leadership of someone of Shackleton's caliber- they were poorly led. This doesn't lessen the courageous and amazing accomplishments of the party in caching supplies needed by Shackleton on the second half of his continental crossing. What is really lost in all the hoopla over the Shackleton party survival is the fact that in all probability Shack and his trans-Antarctic team would have died attempting to complete this endeavor (which wasn't successfully completed until many decades later with sno-cats I believe). The British polar expeditions were historically not nearly as well-equipped, not trained to use skis- instead man-hauling supplies on sledges, and frankly were out-executed by the Norwegians. That the British got as far as they did to the South Pole (Shackleton within 100 miles in an earlier expedition) was testament to their spirit and willpower and toughness. But they paid the price in horrible hardships while Amundsen and his party reached the Pole on skis with relative ease. Amundsen also it has been noted benefited from very good weather en route unlike Scott.

It may be a disgrace that the men who were commissioned to establish Shackleton's supply drops have been forgotten but this was hardly the fault of Sir Ernest. You're correct of course, that the loss of life on an expedition with which Shackleton had no control cannot be attributed to the man so why this part of the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition has been ignored has to be owing to a lack of public interest at that time. At least, I can't offer another reasonable explanation.

During his life, Shackleton was rightly proud of the fact that he never sacrificed a man in pursuit of personal glory and he never asked a man to take a risk that he did not first subject himself to. These statements are not part of legend but fact and it is what made Shackleton so much different than Robert Falcon Scott. Scott was an amateur explorer. He began exploration after he was involved in a collision and was blamed for the accident. In the RN such a blemish on one's record essentially ended one's career. Scott embraced exploration when it was apparent his naval career was in the tank. Shackleton was rather the real thing. He was tough as nails, a marvellous judge of men, and a man who led by example. Was he perfect? No but then what person has ever been perfect? And it is correct that no expedition that he personally led ever suffered the loss of a single man.

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