frank hurley the endurance keeled over by pressure antarctica 1915 SW the Staircase of the Giants

the Staircase of the Giants owes its name to the two larger-than-life sculptures by Jacopo Sansovino

Werner Bischof (1916-1954) initially specialized and perfected himself in the graphic

together with Karl Pawek

taken in the summer of 1967

picture size: 26

frank hurley the endurance keeled over by pressure antarctica 1915 SW the Staircase of the GiantsWhen World War I began in Europe in 1914, on the other side of the world, the British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail on the Endurance to set off on the last major expedition in the heroic era of Antarctic research: the Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition. But the Endurance gets stuck in the pack ice just a days journey from the Antarctic mainland. After months of fighting against the ice, the Endurance sinks. The men who previously