Six heavily bearded, exhausted but jubilant adventurers took advantage of 15-20 knot winds and a 2 metre swell to help land their boat, Alexandra Shackleton on the beach at Peggotty Bluff, South Georgia island. Picture: Jo Stewart Source: adelaidenow
Six heavily bearded, exhausted but jubilant adventurers took advantage of 15-20 knot winds and a 2 metre swell to help land their boat, Alexandra Shackleton on the beach at Peggotty Bluff, South Georgia island. Picture: Jo Stewart Source: adelaidenow
Six heavily bearded, exhausted but jubilant adventurers took advantage of 15-20 knot winds and a 2 metre swell to help land their boat, Alexandra Shackleton on the beach at Peggotty Bluff, South Georgia island. Picture: Jo Stewart Source: adelaidenow
Six heavily bearded, exhausted but jubilant adventurers took advantage of 15-20 knot winds and a 2 metre swell to help land their boat, Alexandra Shackleton on the beach at Peggotty Bluff, South Georgia island. Picture: Jo Stewart Source: adelaidenow
ADELAIDE adventurer Tim Jarvis is now preparing to traverse the mountainous interior of South Georgia Island after yesterday making landfall following an 800 nautical mile sea voyage.
Landing at South Georgia was the most significant milestone yet in Jarvis' mission to recreate the epic survival voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton in 1916.
It took Jarvis and his crew of five 12 days to make the journey from Elephant Island in a 7m lifeboat. The next step will be for Jarvis and two of the crew to scale the mountains and reach the whaling station at Stromness in a journey which should take two days.
"I'm immensely proud of this crew," Jarvis said from South Georgia.
"They all performed incredibly well under such dire circumstances and the fact that we managed to sail 800 nautical miles in such a small vessel really shows how solid they are individually and how well we worked together as a team.
"There was just no way to keep dry.
"On a few occasions a big wave washed over the deck and down the hatch soaking everything down below."
Crew member Ed Wardle, who has twice reached the summit of Mt Everest, said it "was the hardest thing I have ever done."
"When that storm hit we were riding really huge waves it was terrifying," he said.
Back in Adelaide, Tim's wife Liz and two children, William and Jack, have been following the expedition's progress on www.shackletonepic.com
The site is updated daily by crew on a nearby support vessel and Liz said that had made life less stressful as she has had no direct contact with her husband.
"It is wonderful to see Tim's bearded, but smiling face, in those photographs and to hear all is going well," she said. .
She said while 19-month old Jack was too young to understand what his father was doing, three-year old William was excited by his father's adventure.
"William has missed his father a lot but has been looking at the photographs and understands his father is on a boat on an exciting journey, although he doesn't have any understanding of the danger," she said.
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