A Spanish ship, the Lion, was the first to sight, in 1753, South Georgia, the crews christened San Pedro, an island that James Cook described as a "wild and terrible" to "not worth
They were caught in the worst place in the world, more than 15.000 miles from home, no means to communicate and knowing that no one would come to rescue them
Our expedition, sponsored by Halconviajes.com, try to repeat the incredible adventure of one of the greatest polar explorers nearly a hundred years . It will be our special tribute to Shackleton.
His attitude to life, his honesty and uprightness before infamy and persecution they underwent Italian mountaineer have made one of the essential ethical mountaineering references of all time.
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Sebastián Álvaro (Photo S. Alvaro and E. M. Piso)
"By then it was almost normal for someone to fall Sundays. Monday was the rescue and Thursday, burial. And then we used to be for the next weekend to do some route", recordaba Anderl Heckmair, the winner of the Eiger North.
Day 8 June, magnificent weather, left the last camp, located 8.168 meters, to the summit. The two were last seen at about one o'clock above the second step "forward resolutely" to the top. Since then, the mystery enveloped the two climbers.
While millions of people lost their lives in the trenches of the battlefields of Europe, Shackleton and his men were to carry out one of the most unusual and extraordinary expeditions of all time.