The book concludes with this part, as the men are on South Georgia Island, and ends with the epilouge. In order to get rescue, the men must find the whaling station to radio in some help. Shackleton suggest that half the team stays at the camp while the other men go on a some-what dangerous journey to the station. This section of the book is simply the
resolution, so its not the most exciting part. However, it does answer the questions of how and when the rescue arrives. One of the few intense parts is when the searchers come across a steep cliff that must be slid down, and the men narrowly escape severe injuries.
The reader is relieved at the end of this part when Shackleton arrives at the whaling station. He heads to Sorlle, the man in charge, and Sorlle questions, " 'Who the hell are you?' he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. 'My name is Shackleton,' he replied in a quiet voice. Again there was silence. Some said that Sorlle turned away and wept." He wept because many thought Shackleton was dead from the sinking of the
Endurance, and Sorlle thought he had lost a friend. But now, everything was all right, for Shackleton was alive and rescue would be sent for the rest of his crew!
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