Shackleton’s Whiskey Safely Recovered from Antarctic Ice
By Rocky Thompson on February 8th, 2010
A New Zealand beverage company has successfully recovered five crates of whiskey and brandy that were abandoned on Shackleton’s failed 1908-09 ‘Nimrod’ expedition to Antarctica. I know what you’re thinking: ‘Nimrod expedition?’ Who was their PR agency? The crates had been broken open by shifting ice and a few bottles were lost, but the recovery crew was surprised to find two cases of brandy alongside the three cases of whiskey they knew were there. I predict that some of these bottles will be sold at auction and bring in nearly $15k apiece. Then those people will drink them and die, but before they die, they’ll realize that Shackleton abandoned all the booze because it was poisonous.
That really *is* old scotch…
Ha… yeah, “a few bottles were lost” and broken… and the recovery team came home with inexplicable headaches, too.
Since you are talking about a particular whiskey, one spelled whisky as we can see on the bottle, spell it whisky as on the bottle and tell your spell checker to stick it.
Nimrod was the name of a king in the Old Testament, described as a might hunter. It didn’t become an insult until the 1930s, possibly due to a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but that’s disputed.