Marooned at the end of the world
A hundred years ago Saturday, 31 people aboard the Karluk, including my grandfather, set out with lofty ambitions of exploration and discovery on one of the most ambitious Arctic expeditions in history.
But when massive pack ice crushed their ship, they found themselves in a desperate yearlong fight for their lives.
The crew's perilous struggle to make it out alive in the face of daunting odds and fearsome conditions is preserved in their journals and memoirs.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/13/world/americas/deadly-arctic-expedition/index.html
it reminded me of the Shackleton party