Shackleton led by example On the voyage back from the Endurance he noticed Hurley the expedition photographer gloveless He forced his own on Hurley saying if he didnt put them on he would throw them overboard Someone else remembered him doing the same thing with a biscuit when they were near starving on the 1905 expeditions He said hed leave it in the snow Millions of pounds couldnt have bought that biscuit As Caroline Alexander author of Endurance the human account of that expedition says The public appetite for heroic endeavour is increasing Shackleton exposes the fact that there is nothing heroic going on now Everything else falls away and he is left standing the genuine embodiment of the ideals that we are so wistful for nowadays