Remember all the fun cocktail conversations you initiated after being the first of your friends to read that polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s booze stash had finally been recovered after 100 years of being buried beneath the ice? Remember explaining, in painstaking detail, that the whiskey was still good and pontificating that some lucky sumbitch would get to take a nice long pull? Well it’s time to step out of the limelight and let some actual Shackleton experts take over.

This video, by Mary Lynn Price of WomenInAntarctica.com, features three women conservators who take audiences inside Shackleton’s historic 1908 hut to explain their on-location conservation work with the Antarctic Heritage Trust.

The hut is still filled with the effects and furnishings from the explorer’s famous Nimrod expedition. There is no way the site would be in such pristine condition without the hard work and diligence of Trust conservators like Lizzie, Anna, and Jana.

[Via: NYT]

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