The punchline–and this doesn’t give away the book–is that Endurance gets caught in the ice, crushed and sunk. It takes a while so everybody climbs off. And that’s where the story of actual endurance begins.
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So when I’m not remodeling, playing with the kids, or on a date with my wife (rare these days!) I like to read. A fave is South and (among other things more notable) it’s about a ship called The Endurance and its 1914 voyage to Antarctica. It was so named for its captain, Ernest Shackleton. The Anglo-Irishman’s family motto was Fortitudine Vincimus, Latin for “By Endurance We Conquer.”
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