Shackleton Quotes

• I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one of my great heroes.

  Edmund Hillary

  Hero, Numbers, Feelings

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• [Derek] Shackleton was a man who - it's probably arrogant to say it - but he was a little bit like me. He undertook incredible dangers and carried on over the sea and over the ice and all the rest of it. He was a remarkable man.

  Edmund Hillary

  Men, Ice, Sea

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• Me encantaría hacer un western. Me encantaría interpretar a un explorador. Es algo que siempre ha cautivado mi imaginación desde que era niño, como James Cook, Magallanes o Earnest Shackleton.

  John C. Reilly

  Niños, Juego, Imaginación

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• For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Winter, Journey, Organization

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2009). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It's not physical - it's all in the head.

  Lewis Gordon

  Long, Gone, Done

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• Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

  Dean Karnazes

  Book, Adventure, Air

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