Rescuing Shackleton's Lost Whiskey

Little-known fact about Ernest Shackleton: He was a drunk. Which doesn't quite explain why he abandoned two cases of Charles Mackinlay & Co. Scotch, his preferred vice, under his 1907–09 base-camp hut on Ant­arctica's Cape Royds. As the story goes, Shack and his crew were so grateful to be picked up after their unsuccessful bid to reach the South Pole that they literally left everything—including reindeer sleeping bags, bottled gooseberries, and canned sheep's tongues—as they sprinted to the boat. And so the whisky sat under the hut, forgotten until now.

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