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MEN WANTED | Freeman Transport Blog In 1907, Ernest Shackleton issued a challenge. Journey with him, literally, to the ends of the Earth. A perilous trek where death was imminent, and if you survived, the promised reward of honor and recognition would be yours. The early twentieth century ushered in the great race of National Antarctic Expeditions, and British, Scottish, and German explorers answered the call. Glory, the prize for himself and his homeland, to the champion who could successfully conquer and claim the frontier known as the South Pole. From 1907-1909, Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition defied the odds to extend mans reach towards the South Pole. When the expedition could pioneer no further, Shackleton and his landing party were a mere 97 miles from the objective. It was the furthest anyone had traveled into the Antarctic. This was also a noted failure, with a decidedly marked victory. Was the adventure worth the risk for the members of his landing crew? The estimated salary for the entire shore-party was 6055£. Evenly divided amongst the recorded count of sixteen men, spread over three years, the individual expedition pay equaled low-down dirty wages. For the sum total of $175US per year, what sort of dangerous (and possibly life ending) scenarios would you entertain? Some people could barely make a decent grocery run to Whole Foods for a single week at that rate. Over a century ago, men danced with fate on the final frontier, daring to boldly tread further than any man before them. Would an opportunity to make history, today, be worth the stretch? Could you relish the Shackleton experience and accept small wages for a chance at honor and recognition, in case of success?

MEN WANTED | Freeman Transport Blog

In 1907, Ernest Shackleton issued a challenge. Journey with him, literally, to the ends of the Earth. A perilous trek where death was imminent, and if you survived, the promised reward of honor and recognition would be yours.

The early twentieth century ushered in the great race of National Antarctic Expeditions, and British, Scottish, and German explorers answered the call. Glory, the prize for himself and his homeland, to the champion who could successfully conquer and claim the frontier known as the South Pole.

From 1907-1909, Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition defied the odds to extend mans reach towards the South Pole. When the expedition could pioneer no further, Shackleton and his landing party were a mere 97 miles from the objective. It was the furthest anyone had traveled into the Antarctic. This was also a noted failure, with a decidedly marked victory.

Was the adventure worth the risk for the members of his landing crew? The estimated salary for the entire shore-party was 6055£. Evenly divided amongst the recorded count of sixteen men, spread over three years, the individual expedition pay equaled low-down dirty wages. For the sum total of $175US per year, what sort of dangerous (and possibly life ending) scenarios would you entertain? Some people could barely make a decent grocery run to Whole Foods for a single week at that rate.

Over a century ago, men danced with fate on the final frontier, daring to boldly tread further than any man before them. Would an opportunity to make history, today, be worth the stretch? Could you relish the Shackleton experience and accept small wages for a chance at honor and recognition, in case of success?