Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Endurance captain Frank Worsley, Shackleton’s gifted navigator, knew how to stay the course…

When the wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance was found nearly 10,000 feet below the surface of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea in March 2022, it was located just 4 miles from its last known position, as recorded by the Endurance’s captain and navigator, Frank Worsley, in November 1915. That’s an astonishing degree of accuracy for a position determined with mechanical tools…