Weatherwatch: Shackleton, in an open boat, faces a Cape Horn roller

Ernest Shackleton, in a desperate attempt to rescue the stricken crew of Endurance, crossed Drake’s Passage in a lifeboat to seek help in South GeorgiaOn 5 May 1916, explorer Ernest Shackleton and four of his men encountered a wave like no other. The crew of Shackleton’s ship Endurance were stranded on Elephant Island in the Antarctic. Shackleton hoped to get help from South Georgia by sailing a small lifeboat across the infamous Drake Passage, reputedly the roughest stretch of sea i