‘The stakes are so different’: Endurance filmmaker on finding Ernest Shackleton’s iconic lost ship in a new documentary on Disney Plus x

During the pandemic, when we were all stuck indoors distracting ourselves with Wordle and baking endless sourdough loaves, a new discovery was made that took the whole world by storm: Sir Ernest Shackleton’s three-masted sailing ship ‘Endurance’ was finally found where it sank in 1915 underneath the ice of Antarctica.

Nicknamed ‘the Titanic of polar exploration vessels’, the wreckage caught the attention of a lot of people, including the adventure filmmaking duo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin from behind some of the best Disney Plus movies like Free Solo, Meru, and The Rescue, who immediately set out to start capturing the epic discovery.

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