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The Bedford Library Foundation will host its annual Leen Lecture with Antarctic guide and Mt. Everest climber Ed Webster.

The Most Famous Survival Story of All Time: Sir Ernest Shackleton’s infamous Endurance Expedition to Antarctica is one of history’s most astounding survival stories, a tale overflowing with almost unbelievable privation and pluck.

The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance was located on March 5, 2022 on the seafloor of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea…. 9,869 feet below the surface !!

To honor Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition,  Ed Webster presents an educational, historical lecture documenting Shackleton’s life and times, plus his singular leadership of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, to use its proper name.

Ed’s personally-narrated lecture chronicles Shackleton’s 1914 to 1917 ordeal with the original photographs taken by the team’s cameraman, famed Australian photographer Frank Hurley. A bonus are several magnificent pictures of the Crossing of South Georgia by Ed’s Mt. Everest partner Stephen Venables, one of just a few explorers to duplicate the climactic end to Ernest Shackleton’s Incredible Journey.

The Leen Lecture series, held every spring, was established in 2002 by Todd Leen in memory of his brother Russell, a devoted patron of the Bedford Public Library.