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FRANK HURLEY (1885-1962)

The exhausted party on the beach at Cape Valentine, Elephant Island

15 August 1916

RCIN 2580107

This was the men’s first experience of dry land in nearly 500 days, after an exhausting six-day boat journey. Shackleton recorded the near-hysterical reactions of the men: They were laughing uproariously, picking up stones and letting handfuls of pebbles trickle through their fingers like misers gloating over hoarded gold.

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