Perce Blackborow

There, Bakewell was taken on as an able seaman by Shackleton's ship Endurance, which was en route to the Antarctic, but Blackborow was not hired; at age 18, his youth and inexperience counted against him.

Apparently in a fit of genuine rage, Shackleton subjected the stowaway to a most severe and terrifying tirade in front of the entire crew.

Following Endurance's entrapment and crushing in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea, the crew relocated to remote, uninhabited Elephant Island in the ship's lifeboats.

On arrival, Shackleton thought to give Blackborow, the youngest of the crew, the honor of being the first to step on the island, forgetting that his feet had been severely frostbitten during the wet, cold journey in the boats.

Blackborow, however, had taken the wrong sort of boots and on the crew's journey to Elephant Island via lifeboat, his feet were continuously exposed to the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean for several days.

On 24 April 1916, a small party led by Shackleton set sail in the James Caird for distant South Georgia, hoping to return in a few weeks to rescue the others.