Character experience, shackleton.

Shackleton's three Antarctic expeditions ended in failure, but he was called the greatest leader in the world by his teammates.

190 1 year, shackleton went to the south pole with explorers Scott and Dr. Wilson. However, due to lack of experience, all three people developed symptoms of scurvy in the Antarctic inland. Finally, they were forced to return on the last day of that year. The first Antarctic expedition failed.

The second time, shackleton organized an expedition by himself. They arrived at the Antarctic coast by the research ship Hunter, and the crew camped on the Antarctic coast. Shackleton turned the camp into a warm home. Shackleton and his three partners set out for the Antarctic in June 1908 1 1, and by the end of June1/,they had broken the record of the first Antarctic expedition. However, because they didn't choose the right transportation, they failed. Finally, after a month's trek, they planted the national flag presented by the Queen of England only180km away from the South Pole. Everyone was exhausted, but the four of them had to travel day and night to get back to the boat before starvation. All four people were infected with severe dysentery. In order to prevent the ship from leaving without waiting for them, shackleton and another stronger partner set off first, leaving the other two in a well-stocked supply station. Finally, in March 1, I rushed back to the expedition ship. Shackleton, who just boarded the ship, insisted on personally leading the team to meet people. Two days later, they returned to the ship with two stragglers.

19 14 At the beginning of this year, shackleton, an Antarctic explorer, posted a job advertisement: recruiting people to take a very dangerous journey to explore the South Pole. The salary is meager, and you need to work in extremely cold, dangerous and dark places for several months. There is no guarantee of a safe return. If you succeed, the only thing you can get is honor. -shackleton didn't expect that in just a few days, there were as many as 5,000 applicants. After careful and strict selection, shackleton, as the boss and leader, finally identified 27 crew members. After five months of training and preparation, shackleton and other 27 knights left London by wooden boat on August 19 14. Shackleton named the wooden boat "Perseverance" according to the family motto "Perseverance will win". On February 5, 65438, the Perseverance left South Georgia. On June 8th, the following year, 65438, after reaching the Weddell Sea on the edge of the Antarctic, Perseverance got stuck in the glacier and drifted with the ice and snow for 10 months, including the long winter in the Antarctic. In the cold of tens of degrees below zero every night, the covered ship was finally crushed by huge ice cubes. 101On October 27th, shackleton ordered to abandon the ship. 165438+1On October 8th, team photographers ventured into the wooden boat trapped in the ice sea and rescued some precious negatives. 165438+1October 2 1 the perseverance sank. They decided to try to walk through the ice and snow to the sea, but they couldn't even walk 3 kilometers every day, which was a huge physical consumption. Finally, shackleton resolutely decided to give up and set up camp on the ice floe. Due to the serious shortage of food, clothes and shelter, shackleton and his crew camped in the ice and snow for four months. In these four months, in order to encourage the crew's fighting spirit, shackleton also laughed and laughed on the ice from time to time, while they had almost eaten all the food and had to rely on goose meat and ice and snow to maintain their lives. When the explorers drifted with the ice to the open waters in the north, they immediately used three small lifeboats rescued when they abandoned the ship. After seven days' arduous sea journey, Qi Xin managed to sail to the uninhabited elephant island together. Elephant Island is an uninhabited island far from the waterway, and there is only one dead end to stay there. Seeing that the crew were on the verge of physical and mental limits, shackleton knew he couldn't wait any longer. 1965438+On April 24th, 2005, shackleton decided to take the 22-foot lifeboat "Garland" to start an almost impossible self-rescue operation, with the goal of crossing the rough sea for about 1300 nautical mile to reach South Georgia Island with a whaling station for help. Before leaving, shackleton secretly wrote a note and gave it to a crew member for safekeeping. We met for 20 days, and he didn't open it until he couldn't come back to save them. On the note, he wrote: "I will definitely come back to save you. If I can't come back, I will do my best. " Five people sailed in the stormy waves for 17 days, and the "garland" miraculously reached the south bank of the inaccessible South Georgia Island. Because the wind was too strong, the "Garland" could not land, so it had to fly in the air for a while, and then it seemed to sink to the bottom of the lifeboat overnight. However, the whaling station is located on the north shore of South Georgia Island. Under the guidance of shackleton, several people with ice chips and almost numb hands and feet only rely on a rope and two ice picks. After leaving two weak players, the other two players and shackleton miraculously crossed the 42-kilometer-long alpine glacier that was considered difficult for birds to cross within 30 hours, crossed the inland of South Georgia where no one had ever set foot, and accurately reached the Downes Whaling Station on the north shore. The stationmaster of the whaling station looked at three objects that seemed to fall from the sky and looked like people and ghosts and asked, "Who are you?" The man walking in front said, "I'm shackleton." The stationmaster of the whaling station, well aware of this trip, believed that the Perseverance had no hope of survival, and a man with a clank of iron turned to hide his face and wept. This day is May 20th, 19 16. On May 23rd, shackleton, who had not recovered, eagerly took a boat to Elephant Island to rescue the 23 crew members left there after receiving the two crew members left in South Georgia Island. Everyone dissuaded him and asked him to stay at the whaling station and be rescued by others, but shackleton strongly disagreed. He said he had to go in person because he promised them before he left. The first three rescues failed because of the heavy wind and waves. On August 30th, when the fourth rescue boat finally approached Elephant Island, the emotional shackleton stared straight ahead. As soon as there is a faint figure, shackleton is in a hurry to count the numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, ... 23. "They are all there! They are all here! ! "shackleton wept with joy and turned to the people on the rescue boat and repeatedly shouted," They are all here! " "They are all here!" "They are all here!" Shackleton finally took back the 23 crew members who stayed in Elephant Island as promised. Afterwards, someone asked these crew members what kind of power made them idle for so long? One of the crew members said, "We firmly believe that shackleton will succeed and he has the ability. If he fails, we also know that he has tried his best ... "The sailor's words are strikingly similar to the note that didn't open at all. When asked why the crew who kept the note didn't take so long to open it as expected, he said, "Because the rest of us and I still believe that shackleton will succeed before then. He won't leave us alone ... "From 1 914 August1to1916 August 30, all the players were rescued. This story of sailing and despair rebirth, which has been recorded in history forever, lasted for two years and one month. This is a failed voyage, but it has become a model of heroism and tenacious fighting spirit in human history. Although it has a long history, shackleton's perseverance and integrity in times of crisis and shackleton's leadership materials for maintaining team spirit and morale are still admirable.