Eventually, she was crushed in the ice and sank, stranding her 28-man complement on the ice and subjecting them to a series of harrowing episodes&mdash;months spent in makeshift camps on the ice, a journey in lifeboats to Elephant Island, an 800 miles open boat journey in the James Caird, and the first crossing of South Georgia&mdash;that led eventually to their rescue with not a life lost.