In the first part of the 20th Century, Sir Ernest Shackleton began his voyage to the Antartic. It was his dream to cross the twenty-one hundred miles of the wasteland by dogsled. He didn’t make it that far, however.

On the way his ship was stopped by an ice pack and sank. He and his men had to trudge over drifting ice floes trying to reach the nearest land, nearly two hundred miles away, and the nearest human outpost nearly twelve hundred miles away. They towed behind them a lifeboat weighing nearly one ton. When they finally reached waters clear enough of ice to navigate, they faced waves as high as ninety feet. Finally, they reach South Georgia Island (Falklands), only to find that it had never been crossed before.

When they finally reached their destination and almost seven months after they began their journey, they were so bedraggled their friends did not recognise them. To a man, however, those who had completed the journey reported that they felt the presence of One unseen to guide them on their perilous trek. Somehow they knew they were not alone.

WILL POWER
Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then just eat one of the pieces!

CAN IT BE DONE?
The impossible is what nobody can do until somebody does.

Never tell anybody it can’t be done …. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. J A Holmes