Trans-Karakoram Tract

While completing these readings on the life and leadership of Sir Ernest Shackleton, it was necessary to compare and contrast his leadership style and abilities to my own. Shackleton was very skilled at being personable and a kindred soul with all of his men. His unwavering love and support for them was clear by his actions during their ordeal. This eventually won him such praise and respect that, several years later when planning his next expedition, many of the men signed on with him again…

Shackleton knew that he had to keep his crew engaged due to the long days and months of unknowing. He ordered the crew to keep up daily activities, but insisted that all members participate in all activities; there was a sense of equality among the men. He was quick to reprimand those who created issues or trouble within the group. John Vincent was quickly punished for bullying and was made out as an example that infighting would not be tolerated (WGBH Enterprises, 2001). Again, Shackleton…

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How Aksai Chin became the bone of contention? Mohan Guruswamy 1,260 words Indian and Chinese troops are in yet another face-off in the Aksai Chin region. How this cold and wind-swept desert became a seemingly intractable dispute is tale worth telling. It was the ambitions of two Kashmir Maharaja’s that saddled India with its two biggest security challenges. We know how Hari Singh’s vacillation led to the invasion of his realm by the Pakistani raiders in 1947 and what followed is well known. But…