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On August 1, ____, Ernest Shackleton departed London on the ship Endurance with 27 men and 69 dogs to cross the Antarctic continent.

Little did they know the journey ahead would be one of the most challenging ____ in history.

The crew members were ____ of excitement, but when their ship got stuck in thick pack ice on January 18, 1915, their joy quickly turned to fear.

“Oh, my! ____ frozen like an almond in the middle of a chocolate bar!” cried one of the crew members.

Shackleton and his men had to abandon their ship and set up camp on the floating ice, ____ they would be forced to spend the winter.

Each man was given a sleeping bag and was ____ to one of five tents.

Shackleton yielded the better sleeping bags to other crew ____ and chose to stay with the group’s more troublesome characters who could get involved in conflicts.

The camping mats were not ____, so they were constantly wet.

The men shivered in the severe cold and ____ from frostbite.

Worst of all, the floating ____ on which they were camped began cracking beneath them.

Shackleton ____ around inspecting the ice regularly for the crew members’ safety.

Some nights, Shackleton and his men had to pick up their tents, moving their camp to a more secure area where the ____ was less likely to break.

Days went by, and all the ____ members could see for miles around was ice.

Despite the hopeless situation, ____ tried to make the crew at ease with his humor.

A crew member even played his banjo to ____ the crew members’ anxiety and depression.

Seldom were they ____, though.

In the rare happy ____, music became a kind of mental medicine.

____ open and honest communication was helpful to the crew members.

The crew members struggled in the hope of getting back on the Endurance one day, but that day would ____ come.

“She’s going, boys!” Shackleton shouted on the evening of November 21, 1915, witnessing his ship finally breaking up and sinking ____ the Weddell Sea.

The 28 men were now isolated on drifting ice ____ of miles from land, with no ship, no means of communication with the outside world, and limited supplies.

Realizing the need for a ____ survival plan, Shackleton established daily routines for his men.

The crew members began each day with breakfast and performed daily tasks such as hunting for food and making improvements to the three lifeboats which were ____ rescued from the sunken ship.

Time was also set aside for ____ like reading or exercising.

The crew sang songs, celebrated their crew members’ birthdays, and ____ played football matches on the ice.

Even in these occasional moments of joy, at night, the men ____ to take turns watching for any ice breaking beneath their feet.

On ____ 9, 1916, the floating ice began to crack, and Shackleton gave the order: “Launch the boats.”

They traveled across the sea ice and then the open ____.

They fought against freezing sea water ____ into the boats before they finally reached Elephant Island 6 days later, on April 15.

The island was far from any shipping routes, so they were not ____ to be found and rescued.

On April 20, with four crew members, Shackleton set off on a risky journey in a ____ lifeboat to seek help from a whaling station on South Georgia Island, which was 1,300 km away.

He took some of the troublesome characters with him so that the remaining crew would not fight while on Elephant ____.

Each morning on the ____, Frank Wild, whom Shackleton had left in charge, called everyone to be ready to depart.

“The Boss may come ____!” he declared daily.

Shackleton and the four crew members finally ____ South Georgia Island on May 10. Still, their struggle was not over yet.

The whaling station was located on the ____ side of a mountain range.

They had to cross the rocky mountains on ____.

They stopped to ____ for a while, and the exhausted men fell asleep right away.

Shackleton woke them up after only a five-minute nap, which saved them ____ freezing to death.

When they ____ at the whaling station, Shackleton hurried to arrange for a rescue ship, the Yelcho, to be sent to Elephant Island.

On August 30, 1916, the crew members on Elephant Island spotted a ____.

____ hearing the news of the rescue ship’s arrival, everyone rushed out of camp.

“Are you alright?” ____ called out.

“All well!” came the ____.

All 28 men on the island were ____ alive and safe.

After 634 days of ____ in the Antarctic, the crew had finally reached the end of their long and harsh journey.

“I have ____ it,” Shackleton wrote to his wife.

“Not a life lost, and we have been through ____.”