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The ‘Endurance' Filmmakers on Bringing Ernest Shackleton Back From the Dead With AI

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Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1917 Trans-Antarctic expedition is "the greatest survival story ever told" National Geographic film, "Endure," premieres on Nat Geo today and hits Hulu and Disney+ on Nov. 2 .

Filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi have chronicled record-breaking expeditions.

Endurance is the story of the search for the ship that led the expedition to Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean .

Filmmakers used AI -assisted technology to read Shackleton 's words in his own voice.

The film was shot by the expedition's photographer Frank Hurley 110 years later .

Jimmy Chin's umpteenth expedition to Everest led him to find the remains of Andrew Irvine , a long lost member of the 1924 Mallory party .

Chin : "We were traveling between two different camps up the glacier on the central Khumbu glacier, which sits below Everest on the north side".