Recovering Lost Whisky
Do you know who Ernest Shackleton was? After Columbus, he might be the most famous explorer who didn’t find what he was looking for.
In 1909 he and his team attempted to go to the South Pole. When supplies ran out they had to turn back before making it.
Now we know that they left a few things down there as well, specifically, two cases of whisky. The “Rare Old” brand was made by McKinlay and Co. McKinlay, now owned by Whyte & Mackay, doesn’t make Rare Old anymore but these two cases have survived, frozen in the ice in Antarctica.
Whyte & Mackay has asked a team to go down and recover the lost whisky. It was first discovered in 2006 but was too embedded in the ice to be taken. Now it is hoped that it can be retrieved with special drills.
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