Tim Jarvis and Barry Gray after arriving at Stromness whaling station on South Georgia. Picture: Jo Stewart Source: adelaidenow
EXHAUSTED and weather-beaten, Adelaide adventurer Tim Jarvis and British mountaineer Barry Gray yesterday completed their epic re-creation of Sir Ernest Shackleton's desperate 1916 Antarctic boat voyage and cross-country trek.
Mr Jarvis yesterday spoke to his wife, Elizabeth, after completing a gruelling, three-day ice-mountain climb.
"He is elated to have got through to the end - very, very tired as well," Ms Jarvis said. "It was hard."
Mr Jarvis, who set out from Chile on January 3 on a replica of the 6.9m whaler in which Shackleton made his 1300km journey 97 years ago, said he and Mr Gray arrived against the odds.
Intrepid explorere Ernest Shackleton in 1909
The team left icebound Elephant Island, off the coast of Antarctica, on January 23 for South Georgia, following the path of Shackleton, who had become stranded with his crew and made the open-boat journey to South Georgia to find help for himself and his men.
Once at South Georgia, Mr Jarvis led part of his team on a harrowing three-day mountain climb to the Stromness whaling station, where both he and Shackleton found warmth, food and safety.
Expedition leader Tim Jarvis and mountaineer Barry Gray, as they departed on the final leg of journey at Peggotty Bluff in South Georgia two days ago. Picture: Jo Stewart
Adding to the difficulty, Mr Jarvis and most of his team wore the same period clothes - woollen gloves and hats - worn by Shackleton.
At South Georgia, three of the crew were diagnosed with "trench foot", a painful condition suffered by World War I soldiers brought on by prolonged cold-water immersion in the trenches.
Mr Jarvis and Mr Gray were accompanied to Stromness by their navigator Paul Larsen. While they were suffering extreme exhaustion and frostbite, Mr Larsen - who wore modern weather-proof clothes - was in relatively good health.
Shackleton Epic expedition leader Tim Jarvis (hooded) steers the Alexandra Shackleton. Also on deck is a sleeping Baz Gray and Seb Coulthard in the cockpit. Picture: Jo Stewart
"They had a shocking, shocking climb but they're safe and relieved," an expedition spokesman said.
"Tim is exhausted. His right foot's gone ivory-white but he said it was epic, epic."
After arriving they were given medical attention.
The great climber, Sir Edmund Hillary, called Shackleton's journey "the greatest survival story of all time".
Mr Jarvis spent four years preparing for the $2.5 million expedition, which involved the Discovery Channel, the Public Broadcasting Service and book company HarperCollins.
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