“Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labor under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.” - Antarctica Expedition Recruitment - Sir Ernest Shackleton - 1914

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Escape From Ice Island?Camp Redwing, January 20-22, 2017$30 per participant (all meals included)

scout competitions- “Swimmin’ with the ice cubes” (no real swimming will occur)- “Iceberg hop”- “Give me shelter”- “From Ice to fire”- sled race(and more)

adult leader cookoff

Adventure Movie Saturday night: Shackleton. Learn why he said:

- “Superhuman effort isn’t work a darn unless it achieves results.”- “We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.”- “Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”- “I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.”- “Just at daybreak I went over to the 'Endurance' with Wild and Hurley, in order to retrieve some tins of petrol that could be used to boil up milk for the rest of the men. The ship presented a painful spectacle of chaos and wreck. The jib-boom and bowsprit had snapped off during the night and now lay at right angles to the ship, with the chains, martingale, and bob-stay dragging them as the vessel quivered and moved in the grinding pack. The ice had driven over the forecastle and she was well down by the head.”