Shackleton: Death or Glory (2013)

Genre

documentary television program

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 3 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Adventurer Tim Jarvis leads a team to recreate Ernest Shackleton's perilous 1916 journey across the Southern Ocean and a mountain range in South Georgia. The series follows their attempt to sail a small boat from Elephant Island to South Georgia, then hike over the island's mountains to reach a whaling station. Cameras capture the challenges and tensions as the crew struggle to replicate the historic feat.

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What happens

Shackleton: Death or Glory (also titled Chasing Shackleton) is a three-part documentary series following an attempt by adventurer Tim Jarvis to re-create the journey of Ernest Shackleton during his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1916. This two-part journey consisted of an open boat voyage from Elephant Island to South Georgia, then a hike over the mountains of South Georgia to the whaling station at Stromness, where help could be sought. The series was filmed by cameraman Ed Wardle, and presented as three 60-minute episodes. The first episode premiered in the UK on 10 October 2013 on the Discovery Channel, and later shown in Australia from 23 November 2013 and in the USA from 8 January 2014 (re-titled as Chasing Shackleton). The series was described by Ben Lawrence at the Telegraph as a "curiously underplayed affair, with only a hyperbolic voice-over occasionally adding drama". Darrell Hartman at The Daily Beast wrote that it was "well worth watching", in an article also describing the conflicts between Tim Jarvis and the documentary film crew. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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