A re-enactment of Sir Ernest Shackleton's journey to seek help for his stranded team after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, only highlights how quite extraordinary this feat was. The joint British and Australian team carried the same equipment, clothes and completed the 800-mile sea journey to South Georgia in a replica lifeboat. Their story only underlines the courage, determination and sheer leadership shown by Shackleton more than 70 years earlier as he fought against terrible conditions and time to get help for the men left behind. Miraculously, they made it and all his men were rescued and a legend was born. There are few other examples of how one man's courage plucked victory from the jaws of defeat. No greater love can a man show than to lay down his life for another and, although Shackleton was not killed, he could have been, and it was his detemination to bring his men home alive that has rightly earned him a place in history.