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BY BILL MCLEAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
A young Annie Aggens probably had a hard time falling asleep whenever her father, former geology teacher Lorenz, read aloud from a certain book at bedtime. But not because the Wilmette native and former North Shore Country Day School student was frightened under the covers. Annie was wide-eyed and enthralled while learning all about the exploits of an early 20th century Anglo-Irish hero and a harrowing
adventure from the pages of author Alfred Lansing’s Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage. Her two sisters found themselves captivated, too, as Lorenz sat on the northernmost step of a stairwell and shone a flashlight on Lansing’s moving prose. Sir Ernest Shackleton led the ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition that saw the sinking of the ship Endurance in the Weddell Sea in 1915 but ended— astonishingly—with Shackleton rescuing his entire crew. The expedition leader and his 27 men
somehow survived months on ice and a diet of fresh water, albatross eggs, seals, and penguins. “When you mention the ship Endurance to adventurers around the world, they get goosebumps,” says Aggens, now director of Wilmette-based PolarExplorers, which was founded in 1993 and creates exceptional and unique adventures for the intrepid traveler and explores the ends of the earth (“and all the cold places in between”). “And Shackleton,” Aggens continues, “was a phenomenal, charismatic leader.” Adds PolarExplorers Founder Rich Continued on PG 2