JOHANNESBURG - National Geographic will this weekend premiere a documentary about the quest to find Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, the legendary Endurance.
WATCH : Endurance | Explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship
In a feat of leadership and perseverance, polar explorer Shackleton kept his crew of 27 men alive for over a year, despite the loss of their ship in frigid pack-ice in 1915.
Professor of Geography at UNISA David Hedding who has done 2 expeditions to Antarctica and followed the discovery of the Endurance keenly, spoke to eNCA.