Frank Wild

Frank Wild and Ernest Shackleton in the heavy pressure The two men stand among blocks of ice thrown up taller than they are, where floes had driven into each other. This was the force that would eventually break the ship. Wild had marched toward the South Pole with Shackleton on the Nimrod expedition, and on this one he would be left in charge of the 22 men on Elephant Island. Seeing them side by side here, small against the pressure ridge, sets up everything that follows.