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00:00It's 6 a.m. The crew on board the Alexandra Shackleton are in the middle
00:06of a storm.
00:11Winds are over 50 knots and the waves are as high as five meters.
00:20This is the worst conditions we've experienced so far.
00:25The team has sailed 200 miles from Elephant Island and still has 600 miles
00:32to go to South Georgia.
00:36They're reliving Shackleton's nightmare. So small was our boat and so great were
00:42the seas that often our sail flapped idly in the calm between the crests of
00:47two waves. Then we would climb the next slope and catch the full fury of the
00:53gale, where the wool-like whiteness of the breaking water surged around us.
01:05Everything is absolutely solid.
01:16It is one hellish journey.
01:20I can't feel any of my fingers.