FINDING ENDURANCE
By DARREL BRISTOW-BOVEY JONATHAN BALL
Writer Darrel Bristow-Bovey is a self-confessed “polar nut” and “Shacklehead”.
His fascination with Ernest Shackleton began when he was a little boy and his father told him incredible tales about the Anglo-Irish explorer’s expeditions to Antarctica.
But what really intrigued him was his dad’s claim that he’d travelled with Shackleton on his ill-fated Endurance expedition.
It was only later that he did the maths and realised this couldn’t have been true because his dad hadn’t
