When Ernest shackleton put his trip to the South Pole on July 1914, he seemed to be preparing for something. Now he and his crew store his meat cans, bicycles and football balls on the boat. Shackleton hopes to be the first to cross a continent frozen at the bottom of the earth. But nothing can be prepared for what happened to shackleton or his crew. And across Antarctica, they created one of the most incredible survival stories in history. The miles of ice were already famous for shackleton when he prepared for 1914. In 198, he was already 1 miles to the South Pole, but turned around because of bad weather. At the end of 1914, he longed for another adventure. Nearly 5 people volunteered to go with him. Shackleton chose 26 crew members and scientists, plus a photographer, Hurley. On the way to the South Pole, he picked up at least 69 sleigh-dog-drawn explorers and trudged across the land. Shackleton's last stop before going to Antarctica was a whaling station in South Georgia. Norwegian whalers told the crew that it was "a bad year of ice." Their rights. Before entering the Weddell Sea, shackleton was forced to zigzag through dangerous ice sheets, sometimes passing over 4 icebergs a day! On January 18, 1915, the ice closed the surrounding ships. It got stuck, as a sailor said, "like almonds in a chocolate in the Middle East." Although he is less than 1 miles from Antarctica, shackleto.