On a march to a new campsite, men strain to haul the James Caird, one of three lifeboats taken from the Endurance. “Playing a game of wait almost wearies one’s patience,” Hurley writes, penning the name of the new camp: Patience.
 

urley has discarded his heavy cameras, tripods, and other equipment. He has only a Vest Pocket Kodak and three rolls of Kodak film. From now to the end of the saga, he will ration his shooting. Knowing that he cannot waste a shot, he concentrates even more on light and composition. Critics later will say that these are among the best photographs he took on the expedition.

“Such a life ages one,” Hurley philosophizes. They are living on seals and penguin. The ice is buckling so hard that one of the men gets seasick.

c o n t i n u e . . .

Picture Courtesy of Royal Geographical Society.